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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. -- Zooey Deschanel
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential. -- Ratan Tata
I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet. -- Adriana Trigiani
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. -- Mark Hoppus
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally. -- Priscilla Ahn
I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music. -- Ryan Adams
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. -- Mason Cooley
Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? -- Natalie Imbruglia
My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her. -- Lamar Odom
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. -- George Michael
For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes. -- Ron Suskind
It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants. -- Robin Epstein
When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her. -- John C. Maxwell
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. -- Leonard Maltin
The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it. -- Liz Miller
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another. -- Mark Hoppus
The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows. -- Beck
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it! -- Shane Filan
If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful. -- Bart Millard
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible? -- Edward Zwick
The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord. -- Al Kooper
I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover! -- Barbara Fredrickson
Being upbeat is the key to life. -- David Frost
I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family. -- Jamie Lynn Sigler
He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete. -- Pat Cash
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. -- Sienna Miller
Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music. -- Kim Dotcom
No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude! -- Buddy Valastro
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. -- Grant-Lee Phillips
I'm a fairly upbeat and happy guy, you know? I don't like people that feel sorry for themselves, and I traditionally stay away from people like that. -- Josh Homme
Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song. -- Kellie Pickler
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities. -- Casey Kasem
I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. -- Casey Kasem
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful. -- Naomie Harris
My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat. -- Marjorie Gubelmann
I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather. -- Natalia Kills
I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows! -- Derek Hough
As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes. -- Terry Francona
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. -- Paul Giamatti
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games. -- Jane McGonigal
People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward. -- John Searles
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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.' -- Andre Dubus
I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family. -- Jamie Lynn Sigler
I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people. -- William Gurstelle
I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus. -- Tommy Shaw
Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. -- Colin Meloy
People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different. -- Krystal
If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way. -- John C. Maxwell
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff. -- James Mercer
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements. -- Serj Tankian
I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time. -- Eliza Doolittle
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it. -- Marilyn Manson
I really wanted to make something that was exciting for everybody, that everybody could enjoy, that was upbeat and positive and that everybody can dance to. -- Corbin Bleu
I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable. -- Jake Epstein
Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song. -- Kellie Pickler
I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat. -- George W. Bush
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness. -- Emily Giffin
I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&B artists such as Drake and Rihanna. -- Lexi Thompson
Stay upbeat and keep your head held high. There is no end to the power of positive thinking. I AM looking forward to all the wealth, success, and abundance speeding my way! -- Ron Barrow
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt. -- Ashley Wagner

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