Music Literacy Quotes

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

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

I could read music before I could read words.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.

I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

I still don't know how to read music.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I just can't read music.

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

Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.

I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.

I never learned to read music.

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I went to school sometimes and knowing if I didn't do well in class that my mom wasn't gonna let me sing in school or sing at that concert.