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


“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” – Malcolm X

“Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.” – Viktor Frankl

“Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien