There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.