Achieve Quote by Frederic Chopin

Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you…

— Allan Holdsworth

Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to…

— Denton Cooley

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like…

— Marnie Stern

Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the…

— Tom Waits

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

— Maria Montessori

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

— Dewey Redman

“Practice makes perfect, and allowing your fingers to practice what your head just learned is a surefire way to integrate this into your knowledge.”

— Erich Andreas

The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not…

— Pat Martino

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid…

— Honore de Balzac

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

— St. Jerome

The only thing you really have to practice is your ability. And this is something I do all the time. I try to teach…

— Jon Brion