Quotes About Patience

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

Only time will set you free, just like me

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 tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.