Danger is very real but fear is a choice.
Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatever you wish.
Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.
The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.