Kenny Werner Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar. — Kenny Werner

The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often. — Kenny Werner

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING. — Kenny Werner

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar. — Kenny Werner

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

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

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

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling.
Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians, inciters, exciters,
spiritual guides and sources of inspiration.
If the musician is illuminated from within,
he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.
Then he is serving planet and its people,
healing what ails us. Such music is truly important.
It is said that "only one who obeys can truly command."
When the artist is immersed in a services,
giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:
He is being seen by all others as a master. — Kenny Werner

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

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

hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night! — Kenny Werner

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within. — Kenny Werner

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

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

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept. — Kenny Werner

Seeking new levels of technical mastery should be a life long pursuit - not because you want to impress, but to facilitate any direction the great spirit inside you wants to go. — Kenny Werner

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

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play. — Kenny Werner