Quotes About Growth

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.