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.

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.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

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

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

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

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