With Your Own Two Hands, Seymour Bernstein, pp203-205
To emerge victorious in an activity as demanding as performing requires great courage and a superhuman organization of one's self.
"It is a grave responsibility to love a composer so much as you love Schubert. You have no other recourse then but to practise diligently so as to give back this love to others through performing." These words had an immediate lasting effect on my pupil, for they gave him a reason to perform that made all other considerations seem of secondary importance. Responsibility to music, he realized for the first time, had to take precedence over all else - even fear. And by taking up this mantle of responsibility, my pupil was able to confront his own talent in such a way that his fear came to seem trivial to him when compared with his love for music. With this in mind, he was soon able to commit himself to a perormance and prepare for it with the kind of motivation that led him to cope with his fear successfully.
What matters most is that you practise as hard as you need to in order to serve music as responsibly as you can.
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