If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
“I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.”
“Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.”