"When I listened to her play I felt I should not be in the same room with her. There were hundreds of people but nobody left. It was a private pain. By private I mean to say unknowable. Only the music knew and it held secrets so that her playing was a puzzle, a whisper, and people afterward stood in the bar and drank and said nothing because they were complicit. There were no words."

This excerpt describes the profound emotional impact of her music, which revealed a deep, private suffering that words could not express. The atmosphere was intimate and almost secretive, with her performance serving as a mysterious language understood only through her playing. The audience, affected by her music, chooses silence over explanation, sharing an unspoken connection rooted in the emotional depth of her performance.