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“I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.”

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Author:Wanda Landowska

“You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.”

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Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I try to practice with my life.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.”

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Author:Jascha Heifetz

“If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?”

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Author:Rob Schwimmer

“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.”

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Author:Ahmad Jamal

“You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!”

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Author:Art Tatum

“I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.”

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Author:Wes Montgomery

“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”

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Author:John Jay Chapman

“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong