Susanna Hoffs Quotes

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

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

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.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

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.

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'm not musical myself.

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

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.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

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

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

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.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I still don't know how to read music.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.