Joey Soloway Quotes

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.

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.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

I write a lot of sad songs!

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

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.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

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

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I've cried over string arrangements.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

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.

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

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

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.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

I love writing sad songs.

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