“The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.”
“Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.”
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.”
“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
“It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.”