Westney Quotes

#1. An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere ... and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.

Patricia Powell

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

William Westney

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

William Westney

#4. 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.

William Westney

#5. The most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is ... what happens in the practice room.

William Westney

#6. No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

Helen Keller

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

William Westney

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

William Westney

#9. I figured Maxine probably had bathroom trips preplanned and efficiently choreographed.

Melissa Jensen

#10. A werewolf who fights with sword and dagger," he said, "is as unnatural as a dog who eats with a fork and a knife.

Cassandra Clare

#11. The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

William Westney

#12. How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

#13. I am for registered civil partnerships.

Angela Merkel

#14. I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.

Adam Schiff

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

William Westney

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

William Westney

#17. Loving long novels plays havoc with going to school

John Irving

#18. 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.

William Westney

#19. I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

John Derbyshire

#20. When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

William Westney

#21. [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.

William Westney

#22. My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

Gigi Hadid

#23. Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

William Westney