Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.