Quotes About Mastery

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

.. 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

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

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

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.