Music Practice Quotes

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  • Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

  • It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

    Music   Keys   Play  
  • Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.

    Running   Memories   Self  
    W Timothy Gallwey, Barry Green (2015). “The Inner Game of Music”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
  • Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability

  • If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

    Fun   Practice   May  
  • The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

    William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”
  • If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

    Life   Music   Practice  
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.

    Book   Giving   Missing  
  • [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

    William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”
  • Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

    Play   Feelings   Sound  
  • 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.

    Dust   Practice   Soul  
  • . . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

    "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.
  • If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press
  • Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

    William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.43, Amadeus Press
  • . .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

  • There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

    Music   Faith   Practice  
    "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.
  • If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

  • If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

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

  • They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

    Music   Art   Men  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

    Player   Musical   Sound  
  • If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

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