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

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.

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

[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.

First love is like hearing your favorite music, regardless of how much you repeat it, every time you will enjoy all the pain.

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.Eating and crying.Crying and eating.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.