Paul Weller Quotes

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

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

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 feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'

I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music.

There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.

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

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

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.

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

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

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.

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.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

Part of being in a band is getting better.