Ken Hensley Quotes

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.

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

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

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

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

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.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

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 like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

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

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

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 started playing music at a pretty young age.