Saturday, September 05, 2009

Anti-quote of the Day

Do not invest too much of your practice time on accompanist literature. Accompanist literature should be a supplement to each practice session, not a substantial portion.
--from eHow's How to Accompay on Piano

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:11 PM

    This instructional article makes "accompanying" sound so exotic.

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  2. I think I had that guy for an audition once..... :p

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  3. Maybe someone should remind Mr. Quayle that some people actually do this for a living and take it quite seriously.

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  4. KathyG10:35 AM

    Maybe the author is really DAN Quayle. Sounds like something he would have said (he would have misspelled 'accompanying' too. ;)

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