I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

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?

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.