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

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

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

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

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

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

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.