Quotes About Routine

Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

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.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.