R. Kelly Quotes

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

I still don't know how to read music.

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

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

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

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

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

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.

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Learn licks and songs from records.

Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I couldn't read or write music - I still can't - I taught myself to play the guitar and piano by listening to songs and working out the chords.

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

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

I don't have a good memory, so learning all the songs for my TV performances was a real challenge.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.