Quotes About Learning To Play An Instrument

#1. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

Joe R. Lansdale

#2. 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

#3. You will never be lonely with a book at your side,

Alyson Richman

#4. 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

#5. Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties ...

Marshall McLuhan

#7. 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

#8. psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What

Adam Phillips

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Charlie Parker

#12. Kind is my middle name."
"I don't think I'd go that far.

Jen Turano

#13. Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Louis C.K.

#14. It's not just that there are two sides to every dispute. It's that each side sincerely believes its version of the story, namely that it is an innocent and long-suffering victim and the other side a malevolent and treacherous sadist.

Steven Pinker

#15. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?

Raphael Carter

#16. On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.

Casey Wilson

#17. 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

#18. He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.

John Updike

#19. 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

#20. Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

Jackie Chan

#21. 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

#22. As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

William Carlos Williams

#23. Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.

Thomas Hardy