Glen Campbell Quotes

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

I still don't know how to read music.

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.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

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.

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.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

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

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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

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.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

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.

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

Music is really, really mathematical.