Quotes About Practice

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

I usually don't play really good on clay.

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I am working very hard at training to improve my efficiency, to be more clinical in front of goal.

I need to work hard at training to become more clinical in front of goal.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

I did clown training for months.

I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a night.

I learned everything from my friends and just constant gigging in night clubs, eight sets a night!

My coaches respect me - the way I come to work, practice and play.

Giannis is truly a student of the game. He listens to the coaches, they show him film, and he's always in the gym working on his game and trying to find ways to get better.

There are lots of aspects to work on my game, which the coaches do with me every day.

I have combinations, and I work on my combinations all the time.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.