Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

I could read music before I could read.

I have a good ear for music.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I learn my songs by ear.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in 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'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I just can't read music.

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

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.

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

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

I could read music before I could read words.

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

I love deejaying and got the opportunity to do a music production course online and loved it, but I am about as musically talented as a house brick.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.