Jose Feliciano Quotes

You're a constant student, as a musician.

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

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

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.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.

I'm going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.

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

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.

You have to keep working all the time. How much you learn, there is always room for learning; you will have to keep improving all the time.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

I love stretching myself musically.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

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 learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.