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My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don’t need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let’s play him more.

jacques barzun
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
“Jacques Barzun on Robert Schumann,” interview by John C. Tibbetts (1986-12-04)
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Added on 26-Aug-24 | Last updated 26-Aug-24
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Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) Anglo-Canadian journalist, author, public speaker
Outliers: The Story of Success, ch. 2 “The 10,000 Hour Rule,” sec. 2 (2008)
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Added on 7-Mar-23 | Last updated 7-Mar-23
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As my dad always says, while improvisation and spontaneity may be the hallmarks of great jazz, the hallmark of being a great player is ensuring the rest of the band is spontaneously improvising the way you want them to.

Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
Broken Homes (2013)
 
Added on 13-Jan-16 | Last updated 13-Jan-16
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