To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Who seeks shall find.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.