You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.