The piano virtuoso practicing scales!
I found this terrific story about practicing scales, quoted by Eric Butterworth. It goes like this…
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal.
After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist.
She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!”
Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!”
What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter.
He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales.
Even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance, there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
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