A good quote illuminates the truth through clever shades.
Ideas for quotes:
1) Include on assignment sheets or lesson notes
2) Print and place in a frame to display in your studio
3) Read during an adult performance class to lighten the mood…
4) Add to a yearly calendar featuring pics of your studio events
(NOTE: all quotes with no source are “unknown” at least to me.)
Inspirational
Music is what feelings sound like.
Play the music, not the instrument.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. -Leigh Hunt
Music is love in search of a word. -Sidney Lanier
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzshe
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Motivational
Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! -Henry Ford
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference. -Zig Ziglar
Stickability is 95% of ability. -David J. Schwartz
Ability is something we produce ourselves. -Suzuki
Practice smart, bring your brain.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. – John Wooden
Stickability is 95% of ability. -David J. Schwartz
Ability is something we produce ourselves. -Suzuki
You can’t make a great play until you first do it in practice. -Chuck Knoll
Words of Wisdom
Notes are silver, rests are gold. -W.A.Mozart
Mistakes are information.
Life is not fair–get used to it.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashmed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. -Will Rogers
Favorite sayings from one of my experienced-in-years-and-wisdom adult piano students…
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. – Sarah H
Build a bridge and get over it. – Sarah H
Guide, don’t give. -Sarah H
Practical Zen
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Good judgment is most often learned by exercising bad judgment
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Some days you’re the bug, some days you’re the windshield.
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Always remember that you’re unique, just like everyone else.
Do you have a favorite to share?
This is so great – thanks for putting these quotes together. And they are good ones at that! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve googled “music quotes” and not come up with very many good ones. Thanks for putting all the great ones into one place.
Hi Leila,
Great quote collection! Thanks for sharing.
Here’s one of my favorites:
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”
—Basho (master of the Haiku)