Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.