Quotes ( some mine, some borrowed, & some anonymous) that I hope resonate with music learners:
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are really princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. --Rilke
Effortlessness: the result of hours of effort --(RM)
Every man takes the limits of his vision for the limits of the world.--Arthur Shopenhauer
Music must have idea or magic. The best music has both. Music with neither dies young, though sometimes rich. --Ned Rorem
Practice does not make perfect; practice makes permanent. --Shinichi Suzuki
The quality of your playing equals the quality of your thinking, minus technique. --(RM)
Imitate-Assimilate-Innovate--Clark Terry
Practice: P-urposeful R-epetition A-nd C-ritical T-hinking I-nvigorates C-reative E-xpression --(RM)
The current pedagogy ignores very fundamental things for musicians today like rhythm & groove. Most classical violinists' sense of rhythm is just God-awful!! --Mark O'Connor
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. --Martha Graham
The current pedagogy ignores very fundamental things for musicians today like rhythm & groove. Most classical violinists' sense of rhythm is just God-awful!! --Mark O'Connor
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. --Martha Graham
Be a student, not a judge. --Jamie Andreas
Good music: Music that grows more interesting with each listen. --(RM)
Problems present themselves as threats of failure. Be unintimidated by the prospect of failure. Be industrious in spite of failure. Nurture the notion that there is no true failure, only feedback. --Author Unknown
Risk. Exist. --Gerard Malanga
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.--Lau Tzu
Our life is what our thoughts make it. How can it be otherwise? –Marcus Aurelius
Practice only on the days you eat.--Author Unknown
Dost thou love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff of life. -–Ben Franklin
There is no such thing as easy or hard. There is only You; prepared or unprepared. --(RM)
Convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. –Aldous Huxley
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. --William James
The time for reasoning and deliberating must go before the resolute action. During the doing itself there is little room for deliberating and reasoning. --Vincent Van Gogh
