Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.