Quotes
“The piano can feel like a laughing cliff but if you breath with it, it brings you into a beautiful world; the world of music. My theory is each note counts. One’s fingers are your extension to your voice. I believe one is not a musician but a finely tuned receptacle that music passes through. Therefore one must “be away from the piano” and in a mental world- a world composing with numbers, notes and beats. “ -self
“True Teaching is True Learning”
“I was put on this earth to teach music and to share my gift to the world. The gift wasn’t easy, I had to work very hard to develop it. But I know one thing I will never stop pursuing and exploring to reach new deeper levels of musical understanding.” -self
“Freddie Hubbard played on the Brooklyn Bridge and the people came to listen”
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“My belief system is based from a philosophy of “teach one how to catch a fish as opposed to just catching one a fish”. The student learns the twelve keys so that he/she develops a palette to choose from. He/ she then starts to develop a voice very similar to how a baby starts to put words together to form sentences aka second language acquisition. I use repetition to get the information into the student’s long term memory. I don’t believe in learning a bunch of “licks” to master the piano just the same way one couldn’t master a language by putting random sentences together. To learn the palette or develop one’s voice the student should be “improvising from the get-go just like a newborn starts to experiment with words.” -self
… “If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. If I act on my dream, perhaps you will remember it; but if I involve you, it becomes your dream, too.” -Tibetan proverb
“Less is better”
“Don’t be a guide on the side and a sage on stage be a sage that guides”
A couple quotes taken from http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran