William Eggleston Quotes

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 learned to read music before I learned to read script.

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.

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

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'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.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

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

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.

I just can't read music.

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

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

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

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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.

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.

I could read music before I could read.

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

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

I could read music before I could read words.

I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and how it is just a completely different form of guitar playing. It is just like if you started speaking in a different language like Japanese or something. It is something that you have to study and work at a lot.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.