[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

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

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.

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

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear