Quotes About Learning

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.