Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney Copy Share Image
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits. — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process. — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your… — Steve Morse Copy Share Image
If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance.… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly,… — Barry Green Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with… — William Westney Copy Share Image
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with… — William Westney Copy Share Image
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following… — Barry Green Copy Share Image
If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. — William Westney Copy Share Image
. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room. — William Westney Copy Share Image
If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next — William Westney Copy Share Image
If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better — Barry Green Copy Share Image
The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening. — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
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