Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
After a storm comes a calm.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.