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Lionel Richie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2920 total appearances

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"Lionel Richie"

And then when you sit down to the piano, you know, it's...

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"Lionel Richie"

Once you find out that some of the greatest artists in the world cannot read or write music, there's Smokey, there's Paul McCartney.

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Once you start going down that list of folks, it's a pretty rare fraternity, sorority.

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You know, I can talk about it.

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But the point is, my problem was ADD or ADHD, which we didn't know back then.

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So, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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Okay, that's great.

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Now, try to read that on a page with dots.

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So, tracking was the worst thing in the world for me.

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It wasn't that I couldn't read it.

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It's just I couldn't read it fast enough to play it.

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So, when you get in a room, I just forgot all that.

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Can you read a chord chart?

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Yeah, forget about it.

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I can get it done faster by standing in a room with a group of musicians, hum it to them.