"When the technical problems of finger dexterity have been solved, it is too late to add musicality, phrasing and musical expression. That is why I never practice mechanically. If we work mechanically, we run the risk of changing the very nature of music."
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Daniel Barenboim, in A Life in Music, in How to Phrase, or It’s All in the Phrasing!, HarpMastery
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