Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.