Lucia Micarelli Quotes

I made music a priority every single day.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

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

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 love stretching myself musically.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

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.

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.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

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.

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

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.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.

Everyone has to start somewhere! I certainly didn't sound great when I first started playing, and I remember all my guitar teachers, both good and bad, and what it felt like to struggle with even the simplest of things.

I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

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

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

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.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don't, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.