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Quotations :: Psychology
Vern Kagarice ~ "(Said while using his trombone a blind person would use their cane)
"Your playing the trombone like this""
Contributed by: Phil Bleinberger
Commentary: I think this was such a great analogy to get across the point that you are in command of the music not the horn. I use this one all the time and it gets the point across!
Edward Kleinhammer ~ "If you think you might miss a note, you rarely disappoint yourself."
Contributed by: Rich Mays
Commentary: I don't recall for certain, but the high-B at the top of the big unison lick in Hary Janos seems to come to mind-- certainly something of dread for most bass trombonists. I was obsessing over it in a lesson when Mr. Kleinhammer made the observation. And he was right.
Jan Kagarice ~ ""Performance is your potential minus interference.""
Contributed by: Karen Marston
Commentary: My time with Jan has had a big impact on my life as both a musician and a person. She used to say this frequently to try and help me to focus on the music and not on physical or other distractions. As a teacher, I have tried to remember this when listening to my own students. What is is that they hear and what is stopping it from coming out of the bell?
Jim Wiseman ~ ""If you make a mistake, Make it a beauty""
Contributed by: Mark
Commentary:
John Petersen ~ "It`s not a matter of life and death"
Contributed by: Rolf Madestrand
Commentary: John used this phrase to encourage me and I think this is a fine word of wisdom.
He holds the first chair at Stockholms Filharmonik Orcestra. He is now retired and was a fine musician.
Domingo Pagliuca ~ "Don't think of playing intervals as the space between the notes, rather, think of just playing the line straight through as if the notes were written on the same line."
Contributed by: John Ledden
Commentary: Don't actually play everything on the same line, the point of him saying this was to imagine it as if it were on line so you don't psyche yourself out.
Gordon Cherry ~ "Don't think so much. The trombone is not a thinking man's instrument."
Contributed by: Andrew Clayden
Commentary: This was one of Gordon's greatest gems when I was studying with him. This comment probably helped me the most in learning to empty my mind while playing in order to let the music come out naturally and freely.
William Harris ~ "Play your own game."
Contributed by: Edward A. Wolff, III, M.D.
Commentary: In reference to the tendency to become hypervigilant toward what other players are doing and allowing this to adversely affect one's progress.
Jim Trimmier ~ "The music doesn't care about your technical difficulties."
Contributed by: Brenda Sansig
Commentary: Jim is a passionate tenor sax player and teacher in the Austin, Texas area. Jim did his studies at UNT, and he is always full of these great one-liners.
Mike Sachs ~ "Don't take "no" from an inanimate object!"
Contributed by: Michael Tutton
Commentary: That was quoted from a recent trumpet masterclass at the Glenn Gould School, strong words from a fantastic musician.
Ray Mase ~ "Overcoming anxiety isn't about learning to not be nervous...it's about learning to play when you are nervous - even I get nervous when I play. If I wasn't nervous for a performance, I would worry that I didn't care enough about how well I played."
Contributed by: Sean Devlin
Commentary: When I was a senior in high school, Mr. Mase was the trumpet teacher at our school, and I had a lesson with him. I wasn't playing my best and he asked if I was nervous. I told him I was very nervous, and that I had terrible performance anxiety problems, but I didn't know how to get over being nervous. This is what he said to me, and since then, I've learned to (mostly) control my anxiety, and play past the distraction.
Arnold Jacobs ~ "Stop thinking and just play."
Contributed by: Larry Zalkind
Commentary: Jake had just gone into a long explanation of a particular vertebrae and a particular cranial nerve, and how they both effect breathing and the throat. He spoke so fast; it was flying by. I wasn't too concerned because I had my Walkman cassette machine recording the lesson, so I figured I would go back and listen again later. I looked at him, obviously not understanding a word he said, and I said that I thought I understood. He could tell that I was lying. We were playing a Rochut. That is when he said, "stop thinking and just play."
I remind myself of that quote often when in performance.
MIke White ~ "There are no wrong notes in jazz, only better choices."
Contributed by: James Hammond
Commentary: This quote taught me that I can play whatever I want as long as I am pleased with the choice.
Tony Chipurn ~ "Just be prepared."
Contributed by: Hoyt Andres
Commentary: As a graduate student at CCM in the mid 90's, I had horrible performance anxiety. When asking Tony if he had any advice to help me overcome this anxiety, the above quote was his response. How true.
Thomas Beversdorf ~ "Analysis IS paralysis"
Contributed by: Bob Burnham
Commentary: Although a highly intellectual person, "Dr. B." encouraged you to keep it simple, not sabotaging the musical goal by focusing on the physical means of producing it.
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