#scales

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. ↗

— Lara St. John

#concept #know #like #love #made

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. ↗

— B. B. King

#asleep #else #everybody #everybody else #had

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#psychology #rats #scales #tipped #working

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#scales #self-delusion #step #stomach #you

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. ↗

— David Baker

#book #does #give #give me #grammar

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. ↗

— James Galway

#exciting #musical #played #rewarding #scales

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. ↗

— Lara St. John

#been #drudgery #ear #everything #grownups

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#bores #family #getting #hand #his

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ↗

— Aesop

#same #scales #seldom #suffer #those

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#know #lessons #scales #take