Quotes About Mastery

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to play. There are so many interesting sounds you can make out of it and so many different elements. I dig it.

I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.

People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

I write on all instruments.

I play no instruments.

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

I enjoy doing the thing that I find interesting really well.

You have to hammer yourself into an artist.

The match losses the one who cannot control himself.

The moment one learns English, complications set in.

This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.

When you're good, you're good!" -Godmothers Series

Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.