Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
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.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
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".