In “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” by John Berendt, the author comes in contact with a woman named Emma Kelly, a piano performer with the nickname of “Lady of 6,000 Songs.”  She has a fabulous view of music.  She said,

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God and I think it’s true.  You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too…

There’s another wonderful thing about being able to play music.  It’s something Johnny Mercer told me.  He said, ‘When you play songs, you can bring back people’s memories of when they fell in love.  That’s where the power lies.’”

There is such a great power in music.