"Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses."

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Source : William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.43, Amadeus Press

William Westney

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“Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.”
“The key to being a singer - try to do it audibly.”

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“All wars are popular for the first 30 days.”
“I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.”
“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.”

Source : "Child of Europe" sec. 4 (1946) (translation by Jan Darowski)
“Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate”
“My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.”
“I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.”

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