Quotes about Sad song

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. Votes: 8

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Votes: 8

Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry. Votes: 7

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Votes: 6

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. Votes: 6

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. Votes: 6

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. Votes: 6

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody. Votes: 6

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork Votes: 6

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear. Votes: 6

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. Votes: 6

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. Votes: 6

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to. Votes: 6

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word. Votes: 6

We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how. Votes: 6

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs. Votes: 6

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. Votes: 4

Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry. Votes: 4

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. Votes: 4

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. Votes: 4

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do. Votes: 4

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark. Votes: 4

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs. Votes: 4

I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics. Votes: 4

Happiness is a sad song. Votes: 3

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat, Votes: 3

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Votes: 3

But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would Votes: 3

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. Votes: 3

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Votes: 3

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. Votes: 3

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs. Votes: 3

And it's a sad song, Todd, but it's also a promise. I'll never deceive you and I'll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it's true. Votes: 3

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing. Votes: 3

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me. Votes: 3

The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song. Votes: 3

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. Votes: 3

I don't really do sad, depressing songs. Votes: 2

I think I drift toward sad love songs. Votes: 2

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. Votes: 2

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! Votes: 2

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. Votes: 2

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. Votes: 2

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. Votes: 2

I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs. Votes: 2

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me. Votes: 2

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. Votes: 2

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.' Votes: 2

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad. Votes: 2

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. Votes: 1

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story Votes: 0

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones. Votes: 0

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. Votes: 0

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? Votes: 0

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad. Votes: 0

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite. Votes: 0

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song. Votes: 0

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy. Votes: 0