I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
“I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.”
“And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.”