Kate Smith Quotes

I never learned to 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.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I still don't know how to read music.

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

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

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

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

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

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

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

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write 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.

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.

I write music visually.

If I could read it, I could play it.

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

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