James Galway Quotes

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

I knew I had a long way to go with my mechanics.

Every game is a chance to improve.

The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I'll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I'm going to try.

I'm always practising because I enjoy it.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.