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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to. -- Amos Lee
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. -- Moby
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. -- Neil Diamond
Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything (and everything) you can. -- John Keltonic
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. -- Zooey Deschanel
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition. -- Rohinton Mistry
I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school. -- Lily Allen
I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more. -- Marilou
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people. -- Wes Borland
We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption. -- Marvin Minsky
There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology. -- Myka 9
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. -- Quincy Jones
I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days. -- Isao Tomita
I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music. -- Adria Petty
Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot. -- Zooey Deschanel
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. -- Frank Black
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. -- Moby
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything. -- Asa Butterfield
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. -- Derek Bailey
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of. -- Nina Simone
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. -- Harrison Birtwistle
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. -- George Bernard Shaw
I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me. -- Blake Judd
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music. -- Roy H. Williams
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music. -- Roy H. Williams
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. -- Brian May
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory. -- Dick Dale
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. -- Harrison Birtwistle
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out. -- Howard Roberts
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says? -- Gene Simmons

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