melancholic melodies Quotes

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

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.

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.