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

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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

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

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I never learned to read music.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

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

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I just can't read music.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

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.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

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

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.