I am now as proficient at reading Curious George as I once was at learning concertos. Seriously. Anyone can sight read a children's story but, once you have read the same story every single night for several months, you start to own it. The words, memorized, come alive as you begin to perform the story as if you were on the Shakespearean stage. You tell the story as if you wrote it. And that, in essence, is why we musicians practice so much.
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