Quotes

10/11/2010 - 10:13 by How To Practice

Free and yet constrained by habit

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

30/09/2010 - 23:00 by How To Practice

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

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

— Tawa Suleman
30/09/2010 - 22:00 by How To Practice

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

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

— Billy Corgan
30/09/2010 - 21:00 by How To Practice

What I have achieved by industry and practice

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

— Johann Sebastian Bach
30/09/2010 - 20:00 by How To Practice

The difference between knowledge and skill is practice

The difference between knowledge and skill is practice.

— Holly Marie Simmers
30/09/2010 - 19:00 by How To Practice

Practice is the best of all instructors

Practice is the best of all instructors

— Publilius Syrus
30/09/2010 - 18:00 by How To Practice

As soon as effective listening takes place . . .

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

30/09/2010 - 17:00 by How To Practice

Simplicity is the final achievement.

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
30/09/2010 - 16:00 by How To Practice

Never ever practice. Always perform.

Never ever practice. Always perform.

— Dave Martin
30/09/2010 - 15:00 by How To Practice

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

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