Louis Armstrong Quotes

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Before you start a practicing regimen, you have to be aware that the study of music is a lifelong process-it's a discipline. And the key to mastering any discipline is consistency.

I consider myself a part-time worker when it comes to the piano, but you need to play regularly to stay sharp.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.

Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

I lived with my teacher and he was my father and he practiced every day so I practiced every day and we practiced every day together.

I practice so hard, Sundays are easy.

I don't take time off. If you've been out of a house for six months and then you come back in and you turn the light on, it might explode. It isn't used to be used. I keep my energy going. It's not a shock to the body when I start playing again. I don't have to 'get in shape.'

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.

I'll admit that I don't have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I'm not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I'll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits - I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.