“I saw satan laughing with delightThe day the music died.”
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”
“I’d like to put that day off as long as possible. You saw the guy at dinner. He’s Satan without the horns. Hitler used to get advice on how to be nasty from him.”
“I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.”
“In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.”