Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You Quotes

“I don’t put much stock in doctors. Do you remember Holme Barcroft? He said he was the kind of doctor who couldn’t even pull a splinter out of your thumb. I really am a doctor, he said, but not a medical doctor. It’s just some initials a university tacked onto my name. What does this university think you’re a doctor of? I asked him. Music, he said. Is that right? I told him, I hadn’t heard that music was sick. He smiled when I said that and it looked like his blue eyes got even bluer. I never saw blue eyes like that again. Well, maybe it’s not sick, but then I’m not through doctoring it yet, either, he said, and it pleasured me that he would be so nimble to come back with a remark after I’d said the sassiest thing to him I knew how.”
― Fred Chappell, Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You