"On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people."

"Paul McCartney may be the closest thing our generation has produced to Franz Schubert -- a master of melody, writing …"

"Music moves us because it serves as a metaphor for emotional life. It has peaks and valleys of tension and release. I…"

"The story of your brain on music is the story of an exquisite orchestration of brain regions, involving both the olde…"

"Studies of violin players by Thomas Elbert have shown that the region of the brain responsible for moving the left ha…"

"The emerging picture from... studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of maste…"

"Memory strength is also a function of how much we care about the experience. ...If I'm playing an instrument I like, …"

"Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of …"

"We can say that speaking French "runs in families," but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is g…"

"So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the…"