"Develop a feel for playing by playing on the mouthpiece only. Mouthpiece playing is important away from the full instrument."

"Keep the lyrical quality when adding articulation to the sound. Be the great player who maintains a lyrical quality at all speeds."

"Use simple commands for the actual playing of your instrument. Reserve complex thinking for your artistry, your phrasing."

"Breathing from bottom to top is not a necessary concept. Start with suction at the mouth, and let the air go where it wants. Proper enlargements will follow."

"Air is free. Go ahead and waste it."

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"Think of air as a column of water gushing up. The tone is a ball buoyed up by the column of air."

"Playing your instrument is not tonguing, fingering, and buzzing. It is hearing the song in your head and recreating it."

"Your goal should be to play with great quality beginning with the first notes of the day."

"Start a conditioning program of playing even simple music for others."

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"Follow the body's laws while adapting them to your instrument's requirements. Simply take air in and move it out."

"Play articulated material legato to obtain a 'best' sound, then have the articulation be the lightest addition of the tongue."

“There is no system of nerves in the diaphragm to tell the brain what position the diaphragm is in. Suck air in and the diaphragm will perform.”

"Playing your instrument is not tonguing, fingering, and buzzing. It is hearing the song in your head and recreating it."

"The best warm-up of brain/tissue connections is to find the norms of a great sound in the mid-range using a mid-dynamic. Then as you play, expand the pitch and dynamic ranges."

"The first sound after a silence should always be your very best."

"Away from the instrument, guess at a pitch, and check yourself using a pitch pipe."

"Air is free. Go ahead and waste it."

"Take lots of air in and then play with a small tongue."