Adapt from http://musicstudents.blogspot.com/
by the violinist Yap Ling

Do you ever wonder or know :

• How much each music note costs you if you don’t practice?
• How much time and money you spend on your normal school as compare to your music lessons. Does it do justice?
• Why others are learning so much faster than you? Ask them and compare the difference.
• Since you are already making such an investment, why not trying your best to make it worthy? Why wasting your time and money?
• Playing an instrument is not like other study where you can burn "mid-night torch" and still be able to get a good result. The playing is physical and your muscles need to be trained to be able to take control.
• Lazy people always cannot find time and the busy one always have plenty of time. Why? Are the excuses really necessary?
• If geniuses are born genius without hard work and sacrifices?
• The more you like certain thing the more you spend time on it and is the same vice versa.
• Students tend to do well if they have encouragement and support from their piers and especially their family.
• Learning to play an instrument is like paddling the boat upstream against the current. Once you stop the boat will move backward because of the current. Well, that is what happened when you stop playing.