Quotes About Development

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Talent is only the starting point.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

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