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.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

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".

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.