Sad Song Quotes

• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Sadness, Thinking

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• 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.

  Reba McEntire

  Music, Song, Hurt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is a sad song.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Song

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• Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

  Hiromi

  Song, People, Want

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

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Song, Sweet, Littles

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• Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.

  Rayvon Owen

  Song, People, Want

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• When I am dead, my dearest,
  Sing no sad songs for me

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Cypress Trees, Cypresses

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• 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.

  Lionel Blue

  Song, Suffering, Sides

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• 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.

  Jhene Aiko

  Song, People, Appreciate

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. September 9, 2014.

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• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

  George Jones

  Song

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• It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Fun, Enjoyable

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• The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

  John Milton

  Song, Thee, Wells

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”

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• Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, I'm Sad, Ifs

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• It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

  Judith Viorst

  Song, Past, Singing

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• In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Hate, Love You

  "I am the Champion". Interview with Nick Farrari, The Sun, www.queenarchives.com. July 19, 1985.

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• I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

  Eric Bachmann

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

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

  Toni Braxton

  Song, Add, Flavor

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• 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.

  Patty Griffin

  Song, Men, Voice

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• Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

  John Frusciante

  Beautiful, Song, Atmosphere

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

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, Comforting

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• 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

  Elaine Stritch

  Song, Insecurity, Morocco

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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