If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.