Freya Ridings Quotes

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Making music is fantastic.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.