Jon Hopkins Quotes

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

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.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.

It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.

Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it.

One thing you can guarantee with the Travellers, they've got a lot of heart.

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.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Just always be waiting for me.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

A little and good fills the trencher.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

You have to practice until you die.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.