"There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling."

-- Barry Green

#Reading Quotes #Play Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level”
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”

Source : 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.
“If you're not dead...you're not done.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2017
“Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.”
“Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.”
“I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.”
“There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?”
“In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.”

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