Barry Green Quotes & Sayings

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better — Barry Green

Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well. — Barry Green

An amateur practices something until he gets it right.

A professional practices until he can't get it wrong! — Barry Green

There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling. — Barry Green

If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film. — Barry Green