Alan Jackson Quotes

I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can't.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

As a solo artist, it's so easy to be lumped into a singer / songwriter genre and writing sleepy, sad songs that are very emotionally rich that mean a lot to you, and people just get kind of tired.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

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.

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.

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

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.

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

I write a lot of sad songs!

I love writing sad songs.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.