Roy Wood Quotes

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.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

I can conduct better than I count.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I never learned to read music.

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

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

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

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