Quotes About Growth

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I've grown up a lot, I've experienced a lot, I'm in love, I'm super happy with who I am and comfortable in my own skin and that's definitely gonna be portrayed in the music and in the lyrics.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.