Reading Music Quotes

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.

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

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.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn't do it.

I just can't read music.

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

If I could read it, I could play it.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.

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

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't know many people. They're not only good performers; they're really good singers! This show is for people who have more of a history in reading music. From what I already know about the ensemble, it's going to be great. And I can't wait to meet the rest of them. They're the real deal.

When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.

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

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

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