To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors