Samuel Butler Quotes

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play it that night. That's been fun for me because it's a little bit of a scary adventure, playing a song for the first time in front of people and letting it just be what it is.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

With time, I am knowing my game better.

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.