My Entire Learning Process Is Slow, Because

After About Six Months, I Told My Mother That I Wanted The Lessons To Stop, And She Was Intelligent Enough Not To Force Me To Continue. Besides, The Lessons Cost Money, Which Was Anything But Abundant In Our Household.

Fight The Tendency To Become Complacent And Do One Kind Of Music - That Is The Death Of A Musician.

From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And Desperate Seriousness Of Making Music.

I Wanted To Get Away From My Past And Everything Connected With It.

Friends Are Very Important To Me, And I Have Always Had Many Of Them. There Are Probably Many Reasons Why This Is So, But Two Seem To Me More Valid Than Any Of The Others I Am A Naturally Friendly Person, And I Hate To Be Alone.