Barbra Streisand Quotes

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

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

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

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 going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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.

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.

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 think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

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

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

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

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.

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

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

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.