Mark Twain Quotes

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.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

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

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness or happiness - it's both at the same time. And that's human, and that's life.

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.

Music makes me cry.

I'm a sucker for a sad song.

We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.

This game will make you cry more often than not.

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

I write a lot of sad songs!

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

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.