Learning An Instrument Quotes

#1. Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

J.B. Priestley

#2. I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

James Blake

#3. Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

Nick Mason

#4. The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

Dan Buettner

#5. When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#6. There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Francis Bacon

#7. Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.

Howard Rheingold

#8. Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Sonu Nigam

#10. Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

#11. Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.

Warryn Campbell

#12. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

Tammy Duckworth

#13. Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!

Bryan Beller

#14. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

#15. The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. And

George Eliot

#16. First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

Charlie Parker

#17. I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

Kim Gordon

#18. When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

Jason Calacanis

#19. If you're learning a new instrument, have fun ...

Phil Ehart

#20. We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

James Woolsey

#21. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

Dave Grohl

#22. Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom.

Saul Bellow

#23. Understand her text. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

Mac DeMarco

#25. Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

Susan Wiggs

#26. As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

Ted Agon

#27. Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

Joseph Campbell