Best advice you ever got?

[Gorn]

Don't be an idiot.

 

[Richland123]

You can't someone else happy. They can only make themselves happy.

 

[Richland123]

When I was in my early 30s, I was thinking about starting to go to college. A guy I worked said, "If you don't start now, in five years, you will be five years older without a college education."

I took that advice and started college part time and ended up getting an associate degree, a bachelor's degree, and a master's degree (M.B.A.) all while working and raising my kid alone.

His statement made a big impact on me.

 

[ZonieBass]

Never eat the yellow snow.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

"Shut the **** up!"

 

[Bob_Ross]

When I was ~14 years old my Dad told me "You should get involved in musical theater; it's a great way to meet chicks."

Best. Advice. Ever.

 

[catcauphonic]

When I was in my early 30s, I was thinking about starting to go to college. A guy I worked said, "If you don't start now, in five years, you will be five years older without a college education."

I took that advice and started college part time and ended up getting an associate degree, a bachelor's degree, and a master's degree (M.B.A.) all while working and raising a my kid alone.

His statement made a big impact on me.

This is the same piece of advice that got me to seriously pick up the bass at 42.

And 'don't piss into the wind' is solid

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Plastics.

 

[FunkHead]

My gut is not trustworthy. I go with what my brain says instead.

Definitely use your brain. But don't you ever get that uneasy feeling? like, "Man i think that car is gonna run that red light" or "I should slow down" and then boom you see a cop. I swear I have ESP. I can see things happening before they actually happen sometimes.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Definitely use your brain. But don't you ever get that uneasy feeling? like, "Man i think that car is gonna run that red light" or "I should slow down" and then boom you see a cop. I swear I have ESP. I can see things happening before they actually happen sometimes.

Yeah, but it's my brain, with all its attendant memory and perspective, telling me what to do. All my gut ever wants is pie.

 

[Marial]

1. Listen
2. Don't quit, move on

 

[Fleebag]

Ironically.........Don't offer advice unless asked.

 

[Bob_Ross]

My gut is not trustworthy. I go with what my brain says instead.

Yeah, but it's my brain, with all its attendant memory and perspective, telling me what to do. All my gut ever wants is pie.

30-something years ago I was having a conversation with a couple of other songwriters; one of them said "When I get an idea for a song..."

...at which point the other interrupted "See, that's the problem: you get your ideas in your head! You think your music, I *feel* my music!"

To which I responded "um, no, you only *think* you feel your music."

 

[Goad]

"Eyes and ears open, mouth shut. Ask to speak with your lawyer"

 

[Fleebag]

To which I would have replied "um, no, you only *feel* that you think you feel your music"

 

[Bent77]

I was told to quit bass

 

[Hot Rats]

26 year ago, when I got my job at a large oil company, my father told me to maximize my contributions to the company stock and what they matched. I am glad I listened.

 

[RED J]

Don't be talking when you should be listening.

 

[Captain Chaos]

 

[Phalex]

Never force anything mechanical.


Also


Never kick anything inanimate.