Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other. . . How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.