I just got a chill. Sometimes I envy people who are hearing a piece of music for the first time. That joy of discovery, it's like your first love.

He believed listening to music was a serious endeavor.

I was tired of hearing people complain all the time. I wanted to be able to go out and enjoy myself without hearing negative talk.

We were always hearing on the street, 'Where can we hear some live blues music?' No place in town was offering regularly scheduled, consistently played blues music. It was a hit-or-miss thing. ... So we decided to change that.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

We just disagree with being denied a hearing on venue. We are obliged to try to get in front of the issue as quickly as we can so not to put things in more disarray than they already are.