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


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If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.



Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

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Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next



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Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.



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Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.



If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.



[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.



Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.





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