As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

The most valuable practice aid is patience.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

When you meet someone, never forget to give them two important presents: your love and your smile. It will cost you nothing.

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.