Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

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.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

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

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.'

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?