Winston Churchill wrote:Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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- markaustinhowle
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[/quote]Ray Young wrote:Within every phrase there is one note which all other notes either build up toward or fall away from.
[/quote]Arnold Jacobs wrote:Don't approach your work on the instrument by trying to fix mistakes. Instead concentrate on what you already do well so that you can do that even better. This way the mistakes will take care of themselves.
[/quote]Arnold Jacobs wrote:There are no shortcuts in music. But if there were one, it would be solfège.
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If my teacher had followed your rules I would have been working on a fishing boat in Alaska today. Think about it. There are students of all different kinds. Students need support. Give everyone a chance and find out what they need to drive them forward. We all have it in us.
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In a masterclass at a brass symposium back in 1997, Tony Kniffen told us:
"There's three components that we all have that determine how good you become as a musician: natural talent, intelligence and work ethic. Work ethic is the most important one."
That has always stuck with me.
"There's three components that we all have that determine how good you become as a musician: natural talent, intelligence and work ethic. Work ethic is the most important one."
That has always stuck with me.
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