Quotes About Growth

The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

STAR: My dad always told me that life will keep on kicking you if you let it. You've got to keep moving, and you've got to not look back.

Don't tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you'll see that its better.

My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.

Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.