Tom Smith

Tomorrow you’ll wish you had practiced harder today.

A musician starting out today should get a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument.

You’re just as beautiful as you feel.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

If you think it, want it, dream it… then it’s real. You are what you feel.

I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

When I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we’ve forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We’ve separated music from life.

I just remember always trying to emulate Dinah Washington, hanging out in my bedroom closet.

Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

There’s millions and millions of people who think Les Paul is a guitar!