Beth Phoenix Quotes

I could read music before I could read.

I learned to read music before I learned to read script.

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

Truth of the matter is, I can't even read or write music.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I still don't know how to read music.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.

I learn my songs by ear.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I am musical. I play guitar.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

I just can't read music.

I never learned to read music.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.