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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
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me -- Christina Rossetti
Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry. -- Mark Chesnutt
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. -- Teddy Thompson
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. -- Steve Martin
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
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
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
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 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
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
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. -- Mac Davis
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. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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 don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. -- Bob Livingston
Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry. -- Gillian Jacobs
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. -- Beth Ditto
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. -- Toni Braxton
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 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 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. -- George Jackson
Happiness is a sad song. -- Charles M. Schulz
I'd rather sing a sad song than eat, -- George Jones
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. -- John Milton
But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would -- Andrew Faulkner
Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. -- The Beatles
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. -- Gabrielle Zevin
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
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
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. -- Patrick Ness
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
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. -- Jane Siberry
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
I don't really do sad, depressing songs. -- Olly Murs
I think I drift toward sad love songs. -- Benmont Tench
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. -- Toni Braxton
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. -- Sarah McLachlan
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? -- Mahalia Jackson
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! -- Jackie Evancho
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. -- Robert Smith
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. -- Aaliyah
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. -- Jessie Ware
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. -- Elle King
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
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. -- Willie Nelson
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.' -- Buddy Guy
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. -- Vince Clarke
funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story -- Sarah Dessen
It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones. -- Eric Bachmann
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. -- Rob Sheffield
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? -- Lisa Ann Sandell
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
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. -- Shane McAnally
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. -- Matt Berninger
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. -- Olly Murs

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