"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 August 2010

Quality.


If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job. I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
- Nigel Kennedy

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.
- Seneca

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