"The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance."

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Source : William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”

William Westney

#Practice Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?”
“Hope does not disappoint.”
“Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.”
“I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.”
“How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.”
“I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.”
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
“I pride myself on being kind.”

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