"Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
~ Patrick Rothfuss ~












He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places...
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