Your taste is why your own work disappoints you.

Kenny Werner–the Space, consciousness interfering, trying and expectation interfering…

Sonny Rollins on leaving this world behind while he plays…

Hal Galper–minimizing emotion (feeling larger chunks of time)

Hal Galper–the illusion of an instrument

Hal Galper on practicing

Hal Galper on state of mind: the difference between practicing and performing.

Jerry Bergonzi, Eternal Student

John Hartford: personal style (2:09) and the life of a musician (2:27)

Rachmaninov Had Big Hands

10,000 hours of deliberate practice

Victor Wooten says what I say

Michael Brecker on practicing

Hank Jones–practicing, developing a style, and developing taste.

Benjamin Zander …you understand/perceive more than you think you do. Also, feeling big chunks of time.

The Music Instinct

Music and the Brain

Aging musicians have sharp brains.

Oliver Sacks’ book Musicophilia.

Radiolab: All Clive has is music and love.

Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv.

More from Charles Limb.

The Neuroscience of Improvisation

The inhibiting self-awareness that upsets our ‘flow.’

Vijay Iyer excellent advice

Mindful Practice

Deliberate Practice

Learning to love practice

Jerry Bergonzi–teaching with empathy and creativity.

On Teaching