1) The only way to be a good musician is to be a bad musician- if you're not playing, you're not getting better.

2) After you've played badly enough, you'll start to play tolerably. After you've played tolerably enough, you'll start to play well. And so on.

3) If you can't play well yet, you haven't played badly long enough. Play badly some more.

4) Talent isn't given, its bought. You buy it with bits of your life, that you'd otherwise have frittered away on something worthless, like earning a living(!)

5) You've got to want it enough to give something else up for it.

6) You've got to believe in yourself as a musician. If you haven't time to practice today, at least pick the instrument up and hold it for a moment. You're training your mind to see you as a musician.

7) Listen to the sort of music you want to play. Immerse yourself in it, and it'll come out in your own music.

8) It doesn't matter whether you want to play for your own pleasure or for an audience - enjoy what you're doing.

9) Don't try to make a list of 10 items when you can only think of 8.

Andrew