Quotes by Barry Green
If you have fun when you practice
If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better
Green, Barry., The Inner Game of Music (Pan Books, 1987), p.140
Little to be said for learning a piece note by note.
There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.
Green, Barry., The Inner Game of Music (Pan Books, 1987), p.85
Self-critical internal conversation
Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.
Green, Barry., The Inner Game of Music (Pan Books, 1986), p.25
