Quotes About Improvement

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

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

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

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

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

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.

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

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.