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“Regarded as a species of poetry, drama is therefore the formation of the word as something that moves between beings. The mystery of word and answer. Essential to it is the fact of the tension between words and answer—the fact, namely, that two men never mean the same things by the words that use, that there is, therefore, no pure reply, that at each point of the conversation, therefore, understanding and misunderstanding are interwoven—from which come the interplay of openers and closeness, expression and reserve.”

“While doing all this, Spector started hearing words like ‘obsessive’ and ‘perfectionist,’ and there’s truth in both — though that truth has been so folded into the mad-genius legend its precise parameters may never be known. The story of Spector listening to a single note for 12 hours has been repeated so often it no longer matters if he ever did.”