The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.