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


“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.” – George Carlin