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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have here below.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.