Essays on music: the stories it tells, and what it leaves us to live by.


“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“While thus employed in doing nothing, I receive a constant stream of telegrams from my unconscious.” – David Ogilvy

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” – Paul Valéry