A Musician Must Make Music, An Artist

You Must Want To Be First-class ...meaning The Best, The Very Best You Are Capable Of Becoming. If You Deliberately Plan To Be Less Than You Are Capable Of Being, Then I Warn You That You'll Be Deeply Unhappy For The Rest Of Your Life. You Will Be Evading Your Own Capacities, Your Own Possibilities.

If I Were Dropped Out Of A Plane Into The Ocean And Told The Nearest Land Was A Thousand Miles Away, I'd Still Swim. And I'd Despise The One Who Gave Up.

What We Call 'normal' In Psychology Is Really A Psychopathology Of The Average, So Undramatic And So Widely Spread That We Don't Even Notice It Ordinarily.

The Emotional Reaction In The Peak Experience Has A Special Flavor Of Wonder, Of Awe, Of Reverence, Of Humility And Surrender Before The Experience As Before Something Great.

We Are Dealing With A Fundamental Characteristic, Inherent In Human Nature, A Potentiality Given To All Or Most Human Beings At Birth, Which Most Often Is Lost Or Buried Or Inhibited As The Person Gets Enculturated.