Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

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

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

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

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.