Advice Quote by Bryce Dessner

Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.

— Lucia Micarelli

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

— Alfonso Cuaron

Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.

— GRiZ

In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their…

— M. Jayachandran

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing -…

— Janis Joplin

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool…

— Dick Dale

The head sculptor, who became a mentor to me, said that the most important thing he'd ever learned was that you have to figure…

— Amber Rubarth

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being…

— Carrie Brownstein

To articulate the ideas in your head, you need formal education, so you study music theory to do that. And that's the only responsibility…

— Van Hunt

Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up…

— Fiona Apple

If anything, I thought I would go the conservatory route, practice cello and try to get into the best orchestra I could, like my…

— Laufey