Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
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.