"You Practice and You get Better. It's Very Simple." ~Philip Glass "Hit it Hard and Wish it Well." ~Claude Gordon
"It is important to practice often during the day, and not a long time. Play thirty minutes and rest fifteen minutes. Then play thirty minutes, rest thirty minutes. Play thirty minutes and rest an hour. The lips are a muscle and it is important to rest them frequently. In all, it is good to practice four hours per day." ~Maurice Andre
"The only person you're truly competing against is yourself. You have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything that I or anyone else might think." ~Jean-Luc Picard