Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.
By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.
Being unprepared heightens nerves.