I have very little overlap with the musical taste of my mother or father (or my sister for that matter). When I was 5 or 6, and first heard Scott Joplin's musi

I have very little overlap with the musical taste of my mother or father (or my sister for that matter). When I was 5 or 6, and first heard Scott Joplin's music ("The Sting" was on television), it was a religious experience. Music I had never heard before spoke to me. And it was like this for every new transcendent musical experience afterward; it felt like something external (and was in each moment seemingly unrelated to my upbringing).