Top 17 Kenny Werner Quotes
#1. The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.
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#2. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
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#3. I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
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#4. Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
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#5. In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".
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#6. It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
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#7. Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
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#9. Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
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#10. Seeking new levels of technical mastery should be a life long pursuit - not because you want to impress, but to facilitate any direction the great spirit inside you wants to go.
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#11. Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
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#12. Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
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#13. If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
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#15. hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night!
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#16. Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
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#17. There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.
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