enables him to exert his creative life-giving effect in his surroundings.
Fundamentals of the Art of Controlling the Instrument
All other technical skills, the playing skill of the instrumentalist, the method of rhythmical variation, and the technical control of the overtone spectrum are based solely on this great imperishable friendship with the powers of infinity.
If the musician does not secure himself this necessary friendship, these two sovereigns drive him into the world of limitations like an enemy, into the world of mental-spiritual narrowness, into the world of problems, and he drags his listeners with himself. 1-3