Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

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Perfection is not very communicative

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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

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Nobody else can make the sound you make.

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