Kenny Werner Quotes

• Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

  Kenny Werner

  Music Is, Unfamiliar, Hard

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• Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

  Kenny Werner

  Light, Musician, Lamps

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• Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

  Kenny Werner

  Beautiful, Play, Piano

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

  Kenny Werner

  Sky, Musician, Music Is

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

  Kenny Werner

  Views, Easy, Difficult

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

  Kenny Werner

  Thinking, Mastery, Capable

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

  Kenny Werner

  Play, Surrender, Instinct

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

  Kenny Werner

  Play, Decision, Study

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

  Kenny Werner

  Accepting

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

  Kenny Werner

  Moving, Taken, Player

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• There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

  Kenny Werner

  Easy, Difficult, Familiar

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• If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

  Kenny Werner

  Practice, Levels, Cases

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

  Kenny Werner

  Self, Expression, Tunes

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

  Kenny Werner

  Definitions, Modern, Used

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

  Kenny Werner

  Lying, Doors, Self

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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