A Feeling in Music

Woody Guthrie got it right:

"There's a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Or it takes you back down the road somebody else has come and you can look out across the world from the hill they are standing on.

"Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days – and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shape in my mind. If it is joy it is of such a treasured sort and such a fine make that the thought of its passing is near to pain – and you can see you pain has paid you a profit in its own strange way – and the joy of that sadness is like a raindrop falling in the sun."