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Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

— Ayelet Waldman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

— Amy Chua

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.

— Cass McCombs

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

— John Williams

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

— Bruno Tonioli

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

— Billy Joel

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

— Stuart Scott

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

— Arabella Weir

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

— Kygo

✗Opposing Perspectives

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau