Quotes About Practice

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Learn licks and songs from records.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.

Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

It's just about working on everything, perfecting everything, like my 3-point shot or ball handling.

I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

When facing bowlers or throw downs, it is not possible to feed the ball in one place at all times; therefore, tennis ball practice comes in handy.

When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

The hardest part is finding that time to actually develop your game and get in practice. Literally going week in and week out playing with what you've got a lot of the time.