Contempt mates well with pity.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.