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My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

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I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

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I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

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Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

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The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: May 16th, 1946

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