Music is, and will always be, its own reward.

“You’ll never be…” Let others say that. Never say “I’ll never be…” You set your own limits. Music, for me, continues to present more mysteries than answers. I love exploring new places to go new views to discover. In the same way 26 letters can convey all of human knowledge, 88 keys in black and white can describe every imaginable color of emotion

Introduced to music by an out of tune player piano pumping pedals to hear and see Moonlight Sonata. After playing and rerolling that piano roll enough, Mom asked if I wanted lessons. Classical lessons I took and remained certain that “If I couldnt read it, I couldnt play it. Then one day the blinders came off and a Beatles anthology book came into my life. Not playing covers is like an author saying he doesn’t read. Everything informs everything else.