If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings.

