The voice in your head

Recently I was in a rehearsal for a faculty concert at the University of Utah. We were rehearsing the Menuetto-Trio I-Trio II of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet and having a conversation about the tempo. One colleague said that she wanted it to be faster, but kept hearing her teacher’s voice in her head saying, “Not too fast!.” We all laughed because we all understand that feeling. Another colleague reminded her that she doesn’t have to listen to that voice anymore. Of course we don’t, we are full grown adults with professional lives of our own, but we all understood and recognized it, because we all hear that voice in our own heads.