Musical Ignorance Quotes

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I was literally unaware of the distinctions between any of that, and I still think it's pointless.

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

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.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'

I don't know one note from another.

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

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

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

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

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

I may not know how to tune a lyre, but I know all that I need to know to make a city great and free.