Kevin Richardson Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

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

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

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'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

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

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'm an interpreter of music.

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

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'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

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

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.