“It’s my job to weave my conviction into my vocation.” – Tom Morello
Author Archives: Izzat Zailan
How to View our Heroes
“There goes my hero, he’s ordinary.” – Foo Fighters
How Time Makes Art Better
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” – Van Gogh
Strategies To Help You Enjoy Reading
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” – Emerson
Reading List
September 2020
Why Kids Are Amazing
“The child is the first artist.” – Carleton Noyes
Our Art is Bigger than Ourselves
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” – T.S. Eliot
Have Faith in Failure
“All my past life had been a preparation for this hour and for this trial.” – Winston Churchill
Three Songwriters
“If I can get you to smile before I leave.” – Jackson Browne
The Hidden Gift of Depression
“A fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe