Quotes About Growth

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

When you start your career, you act in all kinds of movies. You don't pick and choose. But later on, you may feel that there were some films where you should have given a second thought before saying yes.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.