Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.