What we are in life ...

[Adrian]

Hi,

I'm writing an essay as part of my Alexander Technique training course and am doing it on the guitar.

There's a a quote from Jamie that I want to use as it's so appropriate but I can't quite recall it or find it's original source.

the quote was something like - what we are in life is what we are as guitar players.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

many thanks,
Adrian

[Jamie]

Hi Adrian,

The quote is "what you are as a person is what you will be as a guitar player". I don't know what essay that appears in. I do know, however, that it is true!

[Adrian]

Thanks Jamie,

the quote is so relevant to Alexander Technique it's perfect for my essay. I guess it's what Aldous Huxley would have called a 'perennial truth'

thanks again,
Adrian

[Augustine]

I reckon I am almost at the point where I could identify the category of one of Jamie's articles from any single quote!

It appears in "Types of Guitar Students" in the "Taking Lessons" section.
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/taking-lessons/227-types-of-guitar-students.html

[Ted]

If you have a copy of The Principles DVD, there is a section at the end of the video, entitled, "Summa Principia", in which there are twenty principles discussed. The quote you are talking about is in the discussion of Principle #17.