“But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.”

“No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.)”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?”

“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.”

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”