Bishop Briggs Quotes

You're a constant student, as a musician.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

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'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.