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Quotes About Dedication

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
~ Barry Bonds
I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.
~ Matt Kuchar
Yeah, uh, no, I play the cello. I played it, when, a lot when I was younger and it's one of those such a beautiful instrument. It's kind of the few things I've kept up.
~ Charlotte Hope
The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.
~ Julian Bream
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
~ Catherine Deneuve
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
~ Midge Ure
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.
~ Graham Russell
Our dad was always like, 'Look, if you're musical, if you live and breathe music and want to play an instrument, that's not something that's on me to put on you. If you're passionate, you will come to my studio every day after school and watch me work because you can't live without it.
~ Erin Foster
I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.
~ Dianne Reeves
I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the drums just happen to be my instrument.
~ Mike Portnoy
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.
~ Orianthi
I've always had an instrument attached to my body.
~ Maggie Rogers
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
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.
~ Jon Hopkins
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.
~ Ry Cooder
My wife Sarra was instrumental to my success. When I was training, she took care of everything. She would make me dinner and always understood when I had to go to bed early or couldn't walk around the shops.
~ Chris Hoy
I love doing instrumental records; I love doing that.
~ John 5
We play the instruments we love.
~ Winston Marshall
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
~ Nneka
I play no instruments.
~ Clive Davis
From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
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.
~ Matt Skiba
When I'm not boxing, I play instruments.
~ Joseph Parker
I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.
~ Madlib