Quotes from William Westney

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

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

When I overdo things and take chances, I learn faster.

The idea is to let it happen, not make it happen.

mastery comes to you over time when you're focused. Don't get ahead of yourself.

success for adult learners boils down to just one key factor: adventurousness.

No subsection of a piece is too humble to merit our curiosity and serious attention. It may be literally one note (Did I feel relaxed and confident landing on it?) or two notes (Have I truly experienced the space between them%). We build mastery by integrating all these small units.

childlike intuition, free play, and body movement were integral to his creative thinking.

the body will always be more sophisticated than the mind

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

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.

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.

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

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