The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.