William Westney Quotes

[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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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