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

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

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.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

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

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.

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