"Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING."

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Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

Kenny Werner

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“Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.”
“Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”
“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes â€” the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things â€” there is nothing to fall back on.”
“Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.”
“We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people,”
“I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.”
“Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you donâ€™t play is as important as what you do say.”
“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”

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