Top 100 Quotes About Sad Music
#2. 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
#3. I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.
Marina And The Diamonds
#4. He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.
It was not the sad music of waiting. Nor
was it a melody of his heritage. It was a call to the earth. To Allah. To
the country within him.
Susan Abulhawa
#5. It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.
Jill Soloway
#6. I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Fred Durst
#7. 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
#8. And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.
Angela Carter
#9. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
#10. I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a
good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
Elizabeth Berg
#12. I'm a reasonably attractive young gal, great rack, nice legs, and never had any complaints in the sack. But I'd never been - cue sad music - in love before. And no one had ever been - cue sadder music - in love with me.
Alice Clayton
#13. But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
Walton Goggins
#14. Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. Whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy ... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. If there's one thing I really love ... it's sad music.
Danny Elfman
#17. I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.
Sarah Silverman
#18. But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth
#20. It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
Terry Pratchett
#21. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#22. So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?
Anne Rice
#23. 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
#24. I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.
Anna Mouglalis
#25. Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
Martin Luther
#26. When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
Henry Rollins
#27. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.
Haley Pullos
#28. It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
Chuck Klosterman
#29. I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
Kim Gordon
#30. When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
Marcel Proust
#31. They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.
Rick Riordan
#32. When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.
Jens Lekman
#33. I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.
Margaret Atwood
#34. 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
#35. So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.
Hilary Duff
#36. All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
Maya Angelou
#37. When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics
Frank Ocean
#39. If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.
Chris Thile
#40. I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
Melanie Martinez
#41. Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad.
Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez
#42. Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.
Dave Matthes
#43. Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Anthony Daniels
#44. I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.
Erik Hassle
#45. Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.
Selena Gomez
#46. The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her.
Oh yeah... I'll sing it to her when I go home.
I'll go home.
I'll hurry home.
Inio Asano
#47. And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music
leaving tears on the glass,
which is what music does to me
most of the time
but silence too. and rain.
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Willie Nelson
#49. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...
Brenna Ehrlich
#51. Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
Sia Furler
#52. Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.
Simon Le Bon
#53. I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine
#54. Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.
David Mitchell
#55. For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#56. Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
Nico Muhly
#57. The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!
Peter Hook
#58. I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks me is when people assume that I must be really depressed person because they find my songs to be sad.
Thalia Zedek
#59. I liked music that I didn't have to think about, and most country songs spelled it right out for the listener. The girl was mad because the guy cheated, the guy was mad his pickup got trashed, everyone was sad the dog died, and Taylor Swift had about as much luck with men as I did.
Jay Crownover
#60. I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability
Sophia Bennett
#61. Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.
The Beatles
#62. Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.
Tony Blackburn
#63. Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.
Shania Twain
#65. He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
James Joyce
#66. People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.
Nick Hornby
#67. I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany ... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship ... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?
Alfred Stieglitz
#68. Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.
Gene Weingarten
#70. It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.
Joss Stone
#71. The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.
Michael Hersch
#72. We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
Mark Twain
#73. Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.
Beverley Mitchell
#74. The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.
John Fowles
#75. I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and it was when I was in college.
Kristin Chenoweth
#76. A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.
Bernard Cornwell
#77. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
Maggie Stiefvater
#78. A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
Rob Sheffield
#80. Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.
Hank Williams Jr.
#81. If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.
Frank Zappa
#82. I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.
Skylar Grey
#83. Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad ...
John Keats
#84. Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
Johnny Mercer
#85. 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
#86. Life can be challenging and sad ... but music is the easy part.
St. Vincent
#88. It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.
Gail Zappa
#89. I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.
Vashti Bunyan
#90. The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.
Paul Weller
#91. If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
Adam Hicks
#92. The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.
Barbara Hambly
#93. When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics.
Eljumar Alesna
#94. The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.
Geddy Lee
#95. Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still
sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.
Debotri Dhar
#96. I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Rosanna Arquette
#97. The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.
Rob Sheffield
#99. When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
Calvin Harris
#100. Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.
J.C. Lillis
