If you think you can do it, you can.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Only the educated are free.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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.