Alex Winston Quotes

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

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

I still don't know how to read music.

I just can't read music.

I never learned to read music.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

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

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

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!

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

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

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

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

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

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