Guthrie on music...

"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 shapes in my mind –
Or – music gives you a lift when you are recalling or thinking about a friend – and music helps you to go in your own reveries into the mind of the friend – because music makes you tender and sensitive – and this is why the feel to me is half of sadness and half of joy. If it is joy it is of such a treasured sort and of such fine make that the thought of its passing is near to pain – and if it is pain, it is seen so plain and known so true that you can see how pain has paid you a profit in its own strange way – and the joy of the sadness is like a raindrop falling in the sun – some say rain is dreary but it’s not – and some say clear skies are gay – but not always – it’s all a mood – millions of words swirling and whirling like grains of dust in a storm – but where the worst of the dust storms blow – the people pressed in  closer got to be better friends.
And this is what music helps to do – live again the days you made good friends and dream again the tears you shed for joy and for sorrow in the nights of your meeting and parting."

Woody Guthrie.