Josef Lhevine: Try practicing for beauty as well as practicing for technic. Technic is worthless in your playing, if it means nothing more to you than making machines of your hands. ... They play often ... with most commendable accuracy, but with very little of the one great quality which the world wants and for which it holds its highest rewards - Beauty. (p. 39, Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing)
How true! A piano is being tortured somewhere right now.
Josef Hofmann: Technique is a chest of tools from which the skilled artisan draws what he needs at the right time for the right purpose. (p. 116, The Art of the Piano)
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