Ear Playing Quotes

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

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.

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.