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I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. -- Bob Livingston
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. -- Richard Thompson
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. -- Beth Ditto
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. -- Teddy Thompson
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
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do. -- Ellie Goulding
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
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. -- Dierks Bentley
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. -- Mary Lambert
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
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
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. -- Malcolm Wilson
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. -- Alan Jackson
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. -- Ashley Monroe
I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people. -- Percy Sledge
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best. -- Caitlin Rose
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. -- Reba McEntire
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too. -- Jason Mraz
Songs are as sad as the listener. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't really do sad, depressing songs. -- Olly Murs
I think I drift toward sad love songs. -- Benmont Tench
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me -- Christina Rossetti
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. -- Toni Braxton
But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would -- Andrew Faulkner
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! -- Jackie Evancho
Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that. -- Rayvon Owen
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music. -- Hiromi
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. -- Aaliyah
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. -- Richard Kadrey
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. -- Toni Braxton
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody. -- Dan Fogelberg
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. -- Stevie Wonder
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. -- Nick Cave
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
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
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. -- J. Tillman
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
Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is -- Elliott Smith
My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet. -- Eric Bachmann
It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together. -- John Henrik Clarke
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
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

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