Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.