Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.
Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.
Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.
Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.
Perhaps 'Borderlands' can be a lesson for all of us - that when making a videogame, we should not be afraid to identify gamers as the audience.
The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.
I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
I think it's an important lesson for a child. How to behave humanely toward another human being.
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
It's such a great lesson for young players in this league that winning is the most important thing, and that's what Dwyane embodies.
I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.
I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.
I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio - never had a vocal lesson in my life.
Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world.
I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.
I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.
When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.
We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.
I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.
That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
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