Years of Practice Quotes

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone - as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.

I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I was in the studio at 9, 10. So I've had a lot of practice over a lot of years.

I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months' practice: it takes years to make a champion.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

I've been doing this 26 years and have a lot of knowledge which will help me in the ring.