If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”
“I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.”