Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

The most valuable practice aid is patience.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability

As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

The discovery of purpose is in connection to activities that inspires you the most.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn’t my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.