I’d just imagined the artist’s life naïvely, childishly, with too much longing, too much poetry and innocence and purity. And this image ruined music for me.

and

Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters – what allows us to reach beyond ourselves … is that we continue.

-Glenn Kurtz (from his book, A Musician’s Return to Music, read in this article)

(I have this book on my book list, and hope to get it soon, so perhaps I’ll have more quotes later.)