Quotes About Excellence

Winners dont do different things They do things differently

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Put out great music, and that's that

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.