Quotes About Practice

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

I'll always be a student of music.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I first started drinking chocolate milk to refuel in college when one of my assistant coaches said there were studies that proved that lowfat chocolate milk was great for recovery, so after practice, we would get out two big gallons and drink it together as a team.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.