It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally expressive playing will never learn what is known as 'playing'.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.

-- Sam Walton

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

-- Bill Gates

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

-- Wernher von Braun

Art is whatever the artist says it is.

-- Marcel Duchamp