If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.

How we learn is what we learn.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

I think everybody has a secret life.

I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee