Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.
What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.
I try to lead by example.
I'm very much a lead by example person.
I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.
I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.