Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.

T.C. Boyle
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It’s hard to imagine that music was ever just a way to pass the time, but it once was. Music was essential and necessary and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.

Source: Drop City

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