Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.
People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.
If bad things are going to be said about me I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business then I'd better go work in a bank.