Quotes

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

The difference between knowledge and skill is practice.

Practice is the best of all instructors

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Never ever practice. Always perform.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

The more a piece affects out heart, the more easily we remember it.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

An error may be only an unintentional rightness...Do not get too fussy about how every part of the thing sounds. Go ahead. All processes are at first awkward and clumsy and "funny." Do not be afraid of being wrong; just be afraid of being uninteresting.

music learning can occur without music teaching

No Music, No Life. Know Music, Know Life.

The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

If you want to become a musician you must practice. There is no other way. There are no shortcuts.