“There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.”
“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.”
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”