Education Quote by Tina Weymouth

Perfection is framed here not as a virtue but as an exhausting, slightly absurd job description. Tina Weymouth’s line lands because it treats “perfect” the way working musicians actually experience it: as a moving target judged in real time, often by people who only see the polished product. “It’s hard to be perfect” isn’t a confession so much as a demystification. The blunt repetition - “It really is” - plays like a shrug at the myth that great artists are effortlessly great.

The second sentence supplies the sting: “I keep learning things after I’ve already bungled it.” That’s not self-pity; it’s a practical description of how craft works. You don’t get the lesson before the mistake. You get it after the take, after the show, after the argument, after the album is already out in the world. The subtext is quietly rebellious: if learning is inherently belated, then the culture of flawless performance (and the shame economy that comes with it) is fundamentally out of sync with human development.

Coming from Weymouth, it also reads as a sideways critique of rock’s gendered expectations. Women in bands have historically been granted less room to be “in process,” less permission to experiment loudly or fail publicly. Her phrasing cuts through that, insisting on fallibility as part of professionalism, not evidence against it.

What makes it work is the unglamorous cadence: no grand philosophy, just the lived rhythm of trying, messing up, and getting smarter one bruise at a time.