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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. -- Roy Wood
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. -- William Eggleston
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. -- Pete Fountain
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. -- Edith Sitwell
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. -- Antonio Banderas
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. -- Paul Westerberg
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world. -- Natalia Makarova
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. -- Robert Quine
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. -- Maynard James Keenan
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. -- Lolo Jones
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. -- Juliette Binoche
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. -- Charles Frazier
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. -- Zoe Wanamaker
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. -- Aimee Bender
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. -- Ali Smith
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. -- Igor Stravinsky
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. -- Olly Murs
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. -- Jessye Norman
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals. -- Wynonna Judd
All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music. -- Darren Shan
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world, -- Natalia Makarova
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. -- Theodora Goss
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. -- Sheryl Crow
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. -- Salvador de Madariaga
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. -- Craig Finn
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. -- Jarod Kintz
I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored. -- Jack Tatum
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer. -- Richard Pinhas
Start each day with thanksgiving, prayer, reading of the Scriptures, listening to music while engage in exercise; you will be motivated for the entire day. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. -- Emilie Autumn
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news. -- Bjork
Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. -- Alice Cooper
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work. -- Haruki Murakami
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head. -- Carolyn Davidson
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it. -- Kacey Musgraves
My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere. -- Marie Forleo

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