If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

I can’t tell you anything about yourself you don’t already know…WAIT…unless you don’t know you’re an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share…then I can tell you that.

Perfect Love happens at the most imperfect moments!

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.