Dave Navarro Quotes

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

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

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.

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!

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.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

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've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

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

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I just can't read music.

I never learned to read music.

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

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.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.