If you're going through hell, keep going.
Well done is better than well said.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Know or listen to those who know.
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.