Quotes About Practice

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

If you're not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature