The Day the Music Died Quotes

“Maybe life didn’t make sense but then it was our business, I guess, to impose meaning on it.”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died

“Even if it all ultimately means nothing, you’ve got to play the game not only for yourself but for the people you love.”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died

“I guess I had, too, this melancholy, and somehow Buddy Holly dying at least gave me a tangible reason for this feeling. Maybe it’s just all the sadness I see in the people around me, just below the surface I mean, and the fact that there’s nothing I can do about it. Life is like that sometimes.”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died

“I had a philosophy instructor at the U of I say that the only question that mattered in all of philosophy was Verlaine’s “Why are we born to suffer and die?”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died

“because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn’t matter—existence just doesn’t seem to make any sense.”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died

“Meanwhile, I have the cats, and, worst of all, I’ve started to consider them family. I know guys aren’t supposed to like cats (out here, you still occasionally find the stout masculine type who goes out and shoots cats), but I can’t help it. They’ve won me over.”
― Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died