As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Always deliver more than expected.
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible. ' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting
If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.
Ethics are more important than laws.
During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i. e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.