Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

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.'

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

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.