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


“The only way I can explain myself thoroughly is through songs.” -Jimi Hendrix

“A line (of poetry) will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.” – William Butler Yeats, Adam’s Curse

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius