Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.