In 2023, editor, screenwriter, and award-winning poet Robert Grant found himself compelled to write his personal soundtrack: the important artists, songs, and musical moments that make up the music of a life. The result is A Life Loving Music. A Life Loving Music takes the reader through moments big and small in Grant's life, offering deeply felt, sometimes difficult, and often funny stories, such as ingeniously faking trombone practice in 5th grade; his biggest regret from high school; an existential standoff between his mother and Bruce Springsteen; a postcard prank gone terribly awry; witnessing his young children writing a song together--all couched in a deep love and extensive knowledge of music and artists across a wide variety of genres. Part memoir, part liner notes--with some poems thrown in for good measure--A Life Loving Music explores themes of love, loss, the creative life, and belonging to the world with humility, candor, and genuine affection. Along the way, Grant makes the case that one of the most nourishing ways to spend one's life is listening to and sharing music.