Bonnie-isms

Please share your favorite "Bonnie-isms" - the things she used to say to you all the time!

"You only have to practice on the days that you eat."

"As Rubinstein said: 'If I miss one day...I know it. If I miss two days...the critics know it! And if I miss THREE days, the WHOLE WORLD knows it!"

"Look at these people. They're not about to go out and play football! They are graceful. Refined. Play like that."

"You can walk out of my door, but you can't walk out of my heart."

“There is so much to be grateful for.. always show gratitude” 

“If you’re not happy, pretend that you’re happy, and then you will be!”

"Bravo!"  

"The rests are more important than the notes."

She would always give us a regular orange and a chocolate orange for Christmas. She would say, “Something to make you healthy, and something to make you happy!”

"Go slow to go fast."

"Make weak things become strong."

"Music is a gift to be lovingly shared with others."

"Wonderful!!"

"The investment you make in your children's musical education will bear fruit for generations."

“I’m the luckiest that you young people come in here and show me the rings on your fingers and the rings on your toes.”

“You only have to practice on days you want to sleep”

“Try to play it so well I can’t find something to comment on”

"Piano will make you strong and happy!"

“Give thanks, be grateful.” (said with her hands clasped).

“I have the best job in the world! Beautiful people come through my door and play beautiful music for me, and then they pay me! I should be paying them!”

“Here is an orange to make you healthy, a pencil to make you smart, and a chocolate orange to make you happy.”

"Use your body!"

"The more you mess up, the bigger you smile!"

"That was WONDERFUL!"

"Now you've just put us all in a trance, so don't ruin it!" [referring to not cutting off the last note]

"My mother had a duck, my mother had a duck!" [to teach the complicated rhythm of Fantaisie Impromptu]

"You only have to practice on the days that end in Y."

"Make your right hand SING."

"Be happy!!"

(While playing scales) "Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie…. Apple Apple … Strawberry Strawberry… Huckleberry Huckleberry…"