| I don't think there's ever enough. I want my students to know more and play better every week. Until they know enough that I can't teach them any more and they find someone else. It doesn't happen all that often, but sometimes it does and that's the best. But I expect everyone to get better all the time. Scales? There are only twelve. What's the big deal? Students already know 26 letters of the alphabet and multiplication tables, twelve scales are nothing. If the student can play something, then can they play it more beautifully? Can they transpose it? It never ends. I am not in a "band program" per se but I direct three bands and I want them to play better every year.
Michael McLaughlin
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
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