Leopold Auer famous quotes

Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.
-- Leopold Auer

#Practice #Mind #Needs

If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
-- Leopold Auer

#Practice #Two #Hours

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.
-- Leopold Auer

#Genius #Workers

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.
-- Leopold Auer

#Moving #Hands #Important

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.
-- Leopold Auer

#Eight #Practice #Play

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.
-- Leopold Auer

#Art #Real #Technique

Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.
-- Leopold Auer

#Errors #Play #Musical

Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.