Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.