How To Practice quotes

Free and yet constrained by habit

How To Practice — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:08 +0000

I have often thought how strange it is that I can be sitting at the piano in my own living room completely alone and free to do anything I want and yet fall into some habitual and unsatisfying way of working.

— Madeline Bruser

Bruser, Madeline., The Art of Practicing (Bell Tower, 1997), p.10

Practice doesn't make perfect. It just makes you better.

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Practice doesn't make perfect. It just makes you better.

— Tawa Suleman

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

— Billy Corgan

What I have achieved by industry and practice

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

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

— Johann Sebastian Bach

The difference between knowledge and skill is practice

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000

The difference between knowledge and skill is practice.

— Holly Marie Simmers

Practice is the best of all instructors

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Practice is the best of all instructors

— Publilius Syrus

As soon as effective listening takes place . . .

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000

As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

— Howard Snell

Snell, Howard., The Art of Practice (Pen Press, 2006), p.16

Simplicity is the final achievement.

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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.

— Frederic Chopin

Never ever practice. Always perform.

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Never ever practice. Always perform.

— Dave Martin

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

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

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.

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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

— Abe Lemons

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

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0000

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

— Madeline Bruser

Bruser, Madeline., The Art of Practicing (Bell Tower, 1997), p.221

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

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

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

— Ed Macauley

An error may be only an unintentional rightne

How To Practice — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:00:00 +0000

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.

— T. Carl Whitmer