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.

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.

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.

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

If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal, ” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?

Love is the highest moral standard.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.