#read

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#go #how #instrument #learn #other

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#get #human #important #lot #manipulated

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#books #breakfast #champions #considered #ever

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#also #beginning #blocks #examining #forgot

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#daughter #get #going #hated #i

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#basin #before #contains #fashion #glacier