Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

Grief is the price of victory.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.