Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, 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.

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

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

Musicians own music because music owns them.

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

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.