“ Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.”
“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
“If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate.”
“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”