Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Repetitious practice without proper attention to detail probably does more harm than good.

It is a truism, that many of the recorded improvised masterpieces are of a technical complexity, which would be quite beyond the ability of their creators to play them, where they faced with the notes written out as a composition.

Benny Green

Competition is for horses, not artists.

Bela Bartok

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Don’t play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

Pablo Casals

The piece of music is worked out by the composer, but it is the performance which we enjoy. Thus the active and emotional principle in music occurs in the art of reproduction, which draws the eclectic spark from God and directs it towards the listener.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude towards his own work, he ceases to be an artist.

The music fills the space between
The deities and the prophecies
Of our bodies pressed seamlessly
Silent in the shade

Brett Dennen, ‘She’s Mine’

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.

Jim Morrison