Alice Merton Quotes

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Blue is bright and gives us hope for the future.

I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.

I feel like my calling is to show people joy: to make them feel like there's something to look forward to.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.