Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
—Harold Arlen

Works of art are of an intimate loneliness. Only love can grip and
fairly judge them. Consider yourself and your feeling right every time.
—Rilke

...we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
—Philip Larkin

Nothing is more beautiful than a word fitly spoken.
—Marcus Aurelius

I always thought, If the plane starts going down, I'm going to put this on, because it's really the last thing I want to hear.
—Ravi Coltrane, on John Coltrane's solo on "One Down, One Up"

It’s bound to happen. A thing that’s really great can all of a sudden go south. That thing is the Friday-night poker game, though I hope it is only temporary.

What makes times 'best' is that they're lost and gone: we'll never have them again.
—Hou Hsiao-hsien

I refuse to shop there again until I am out of Pepsi, or am in desperate need of pants.

I wanted to express to him what he could do with his insights into my performance (that expression involving several of my favorite words, along with some vigorous and graphic hand gestures), but I decided that since we were in a high-culture atmosphere that I shouldn’t go ghetto on him.

He was in his early thirties, everything was behind him now, he was in the epilogue of his life, and there were still so many years to get through.