Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.