The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.

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.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.