Thundercat Quotes

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I am tone deaf.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

I don't know one note from another.

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

For me, the strike zone has always been, If it's something I can drive, it's most likely a strike. I feel like if it's a ball I really can't do much with, it's most likely a ball. So that's just always been my approach.

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.