The Conscious Musician is a work that intends to completely modify the perception that teachers, parents and students have of the teaching/learning of music. Paulina Derbez has applied her own experience to weave a text that is at the same time a study manual and a synthesis of the real meaning of making music. "Only if we understand, as she has, that music is neither an amusement nor an obligation, neither an anodyne pleasure nor a mere technical display, but a fundamental part of human life," says writer Jorge Volpi about this book.