It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

If you don't have ability, you wind up playing in a rock band.

When no one aids you,
you build your own legs.

It's amazing how much you can accomplish if you start without needing anyone else's opinion.

when you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful.

Perhaps, [Michael] thought, it was better when one did not have to rely on other people

If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net.

Style. It varies from person to person. Without it music will be monotonous.

When all else fails, start a band.

You don’t need mentors, you need action.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

You don't need someone else's approval to do what you want; just figure it out and do it, damn it!

I think a band by its very nature is only as good as the chemistry between the players. None of us in rock bands, or whatever kind of bands we’re in, are virtuosos, otherwise we’d be concert pianists. So the only thing you have in your favor as a band is your unique chemistry. source