Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend…

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice…

— Sheri L. Dew

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to…

— Dallas Willard

For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers.…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's…

— Quincy Jones

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't…

— Jessie Buckley

It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult…

— Sungha Jung

The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it…

— Henry Rollins

I only had a couple of days' practice in the car before my first race. I was very inexperienced. There were a lot of…

— Nicolas Hamilton

There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.

— John M Eades

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

— Miyamoto Musashi

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit…

— Caio Fonseca

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes…

— Lenny Breau

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up…

— Henri Rabaud