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"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."
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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."

"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."

"I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago."

"It takes lot of practice to get it right."

"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"

"Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it."

"Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice."

"There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last, final type of spiritual practice."

"I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself."

"Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble."
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"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."
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