"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

-Sergei Rachmaninoff

"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

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"There is so much talk about music, and so little is really said. I do not think words are at all adequate for the subject, and if I found they were, I should end by writing no more music."

Felix Mendelssohn

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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

B. B. King

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“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon

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“You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.”

–Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist/conductor

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'Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity, from discord find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.'
-Albert Einstein

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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
-- Paul Valery, French Poet

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"Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still."
-- Chinese Proverb

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Memory

The secret of superb memory is to be at peace with any new challenges in learning the repertoire.

Planning vs Over-Planning

Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it's taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself. That's why it's vital to know the difference between good planning and too much planning.

-Twyla Tharp

Luck

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance of ambiguity. Plan only to a point.

Twyla Tharp

Luck

The more I practise, the luckier I get.

Gary Player

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"Obsessive determination balanced with patience, being persistent without being pushy, seeking out your own uniqueness while always being respectful to those from whom you have learned, listening with an open mind and a closed mouth, and when you finally get a chance to perform you do it with fire and passion."

-Tom Hemby interviewed by Gary Heimbauer in Guitar Lovers' Celebration in Jazz Inside NY Magazine

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"Like when you are in love with a person, you do not think: Oh gee, I have to talk or spend five hours with this person. So if you are in love with music you do not count the hours you practice, compose or study. And any adversity and difficulty you might be faced with, whether artistic or business related you are going to approach with a better predisposition."

-Oscar Feldman interviewed by Gary Heimbauer in Jazz Inside NY Magazine

Mind Power

The mind is the limit.
As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you believe it 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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In a comedy, timing is everything. - Anonymous

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A blend of learning and reflection is both painstaking and rewarding.
Twyla Tharp

In other words, no pain no gain.

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
-- Samuel Johnson, Lexicographer