Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".