Mildred S. Dresselhaus Quotes

I could read music before I could read words.

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

I could read music before I could read.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

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

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

I still don't know how to read music.

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.

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.

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 can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

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.

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.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

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

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.