Roger Moore Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

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

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

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.

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

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

I love doing concert music.

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