Quotes About Persistence

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

You can't pick and choose when you are going to be at your best.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.