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There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end. -- Patrick Henry Hughes
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. -- King Tuff
So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop. -- Buddy Rich
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. -- Lawrence Welk
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear. -- Dweezil Zappa
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' -- Bruce Dickinson
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. -- Ian MacKaye
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar. -- Chris Carmack
Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined. -- Harry James

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