"But those taught to go straight from dot to finger, bypassing the ear (and often, sadly, the heart) often never learn to improvise, to compose, to harmonise - to pick out solos by ear -in short to be able to do what music is really all about; play by soul. (And they often can't play from memory either)."

In my case this is wrong... sorry... :-p

But being a (once - fallen out of practice somewhat) brilliant sight reader - even conductor scores, I'm very lazy at 'from memory'... all the others are not a problem...