Martin Freeman Quotes

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

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.

I just can't read music.

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

I never learned to read music.

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

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

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

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

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.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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

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.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.