Quotes About Discipline

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

All one's feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn't attract me.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.