Quotes About Dedication

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

I've never made a bad song.

Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan.

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I had always wanted to write a song on my mother and also mothers generally.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Quite often, when I am recording a song or getting ready for a concert, I pray.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.

I made the song 'Sandese aate hain' for the soldiers to sing in their bunkers.

I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

I used to tell people I slept on the floor, in my songs.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I'm a lover of songs.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.