16 Quotes by Kenny Werner

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

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

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

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.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

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”.

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