"What is your ultimate goal in studying music?"

Though I surely wish to liberate the sound within me and fling it to and fro across the earth, and though I someday hope to lead fellow artists in siphoning heaven and hell from their bones, let my higher aim in the study of music be this:

to know the language of our collective human soul, and thereby master the language of my own.

to isolate life in its purest form, and so learn to fully live.

to create, that I might satisfy a sacred frustration which knows no other outlet.

to build a bridge, firmly connecting disparate cultural worlds.

to one day be found worthy to interrupt the perfection of silence.