Author: JC Heisler

Skills don’t ensure certainty, but allow us to grow in excellence and contribute in ever more generous and genuine ways. Editions

Set. Your. Intention. 1. Start Your Work 2. Engage with the Inevitable Uncertainty; that is Certain 3. Leverage Every Resource Editions

Other peoples’ opinions of you, are none of your business. Editions

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein A good learner is one who is inquisitive and consciously committed to developing their own awareness, through their study and ever deepening experience of music. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind…

Our privilege is to grow intimately close with the sounds. It’s challenging work and takes time. Artists in love will be successful. Editions

“… I am a man first, an artist second. As a man, my first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow men. I will endeavor to meet this obligation through music – the means which God has given me since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries. My contribution to world peace may be…

Music must be “taught” through a rich experience from within the art form. Analogies may give intellectual, conceptual, and philosophical perspective to a student by referencing relatable experiences to the pupil; this is not music. Therefore, any postulated analogy must be considered as a step away from, and not a source of, the actual experience…

The clef is a marvelous wonder and nothing short of a genius miracle. It organizes sound, pitch, and vibrations in time and space. The clef has allowed us to document the unseen and preserve raw emotions felt spanning centuries of time. The clef initiates the opportunity to experience a purely genuine, instantaneous, intense and deeply…

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do Nothing. Say Nothing. Be Nothing.” – Aristotle Editions

MUSIC is THE Teacher. No teacher, not one person, can tell you what Music tells YOU. That is between you, and Music. A discerning teacher is a musician who understands they are simply a Guide in function and form, attentive and submissive to what Music is continually teaching, compelling the student through experience to hear…

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than…

…every inception of the creative act, by virtue of its very nature, is original. There is never a moment within the performance act at which any person can re-create anything. Recreation is a false concept that must always be discarded. The performance act is Pure Creation in the Moment no matter Ability, Intention, Execution or…

Practice because You are Talented Reflect on how the notes Bring You Life. Be Diligent. Be Patient. Respond to your own playing; Say “That Is Interesting.” Editions

Creativity “Anybody can play weird, that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple– awesomely simple-that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus, 1972 Editions

“The artist must be in love, must be in love with what she is doing, so her virtue becomes in truth. So that beauty becomes co-natural to her, bedded in her being through affection. And her works proceed from her heart and her bowels, as from a lucid mind. Such undeviating love is the Supreme…