What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.