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Developing musical long-term memory is primarily a function of careful, conscious listening. There is no more important activity in influencing one's style than hearing the same recordingfour songs of Horace Silver, Jack Teagarden, Franz Schubert, or whatever it may be, for an hour each night for a week or three-just intimate, involved listening, not memorizing or running to the piano or another instrument to "learn" it. This practice, if done regularly, helps put the selected music into one's history and The Yo vocabulary, and will affect one's performance to some degree.
Primacy of the Ear
Ran Blake
When I understood my values, I had to confront the pain of looking stupid and having people get angry at me when they disagreed with my decisions; I had to let go of the safety of social status and the coping mechanisms I had relied on. I soon withdrew from oversocializing, stopped giving poetry readings and publishing in magazines, and instead turned toward what felt private and alive.
The Paradox Is That When I Accept Myself Just as I Am, I Change
Henrik Karlsson
But what do we have more need for, in our whirling mental worlds, than strength and concentration and patience and humility? These are virtues worth aspiring to, especially because they lead to new and greater delights.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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