Kenny Werner Quotes

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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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Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

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It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

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Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

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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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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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Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

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Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

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We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

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