“The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.”

“ the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry -- cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear--'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life.”

“There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”

“She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.”

“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?to give a ground of meaning to our pain?”

“As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits”