Quora Question on Head and Heart

Props to whoever asked this question.

For those who do not already know about Quora it is a website where people can go and pose questions to the public and anyone can answer. It is kind of like Yahoo answers, but the site has a more scholarly and cerebral atmosphere in my opinion.

It is an awesome website that I try not to visit too often simply because I will most likely spend way too much time reading and writing drafts of answers. However, when this question popped up in my subscriptions my plans for the rest of the morning were happily laid to waste. Here is my answer to the question "Human Behavior: People say they are torn between their heart and brain. How do you distinguish your heart from your brain's voice?"
(Click here to read more answers, or here for the Quora page to this answer.)

"This is one way I've personally come to terms with that feeling of being torn between head and heart:
Your body is the orchestra (what you do), your brain is the conductor, and in your heart is the song.

The composer creates the musical piece based on an original internal 'vision', and the conductor must use her or his experiences to instruct the orchestral body towards action.

The members of the orchestra read the sheet music but also have to watch the conductor who keeps all the different facets of the band together. If the conductor strays too far from what is on the page, then the orchestra may fall out of order, but with balance sometimes the conductor may make a change which turns the piece into something even more beautiful or interesting than was written on the page.

Music involves both the technical aspect, playing the right notes, and making it musical with emotion. Some people find it easier play their  heart out when alone than for an audience, but a musician can expect to improve in both reading and playing with experience. 

Everyone is torn between different options sometimes, but personally I feel more when when I focus less on classifying options into "logical head choice" and "emotional heart choice", and more on simply playing a life song worth listening to."