Rock stars, of course, have long had the capacity to act like babies, but have not had the sense to sing like them.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!

The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.

How can a president not be an actor?

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They’ve all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don’t know what they’re talking about.

Speak little, do much.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

We need but little learning to live happily.

Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.

"Tell me what matters," BZ said.
Nothing," Maria said."

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Then, as if getting blown up is not enough to worry about, after I take a seat on the steps, I get a look at the choir. Thirty singers and from where I’m sitting, it looks like only two of them are black. It’s not like I’m saying suburban white people shouldn’t sing. Because I love Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher.