Madi Diaz Quotes

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.

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

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

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!

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

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.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

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

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

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

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

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

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

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

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

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.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.