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tubadude  ·  4381 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?

My dad always told me "If you do it right the first time, you don't have to do it again." when I was a kid. It usually applied to cleaning my room, but I have found it useful later on. I understand the value of failure as a learning experience, but as a musician it's far easier to do it right as soon as possible than to spend hours failing at it.