“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”
“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.”
“My heart has often been too full to speak.' -Emma to husband Charles on her gratitude for 'the cheerful and affectionate looks you have given me when I know you have been miserably uncomfortable.”
“…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.”
“Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.”