Well done is better than well said.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.