“Music reaches past words directly to the heart.”
“Music is a life-long companion.”
“Success in music teaches success in life”
“Musical study develops complex and coordinated physical and mental skills.”
“Classical music balances intellect and emotion”
“Learning takes as long as it takes, and that is often longer than you think it should. Impatience, trying to speed things up, cramming, usually backfires, introducing harmful tension into playing habits, and squandering energy and time by being upset, instead of just calmly and creatively solving the problems.”
“There will always be people who play better than you and people who don’t play as well, and you have absolutely no control over those people’s abilities. Feeling superior or inferior to others is pointless. You can only work, and should only be concerned about, how to improve your own playing.”
