To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the…

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have…

— Jose Feliciano

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

— Julian Bream

The only thing you really have to practice is your ability. And this is something I do all the time. I try to teach…

— Jon Brion

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

— Dave Navarro

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important…

— Edward Hirsch

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

— Sylvia Plath

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

— Seamus Heaney

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

— Charles Bukowski

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…

— Jim Carroll

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge.…

— Richard Louv