Candy Quote by Clive Barker

“Why be sad, when you can sing?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How could you be sad, when you can sing?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

— James Joyce

The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.

— Rory O'Malley

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

— Anonymous

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

— Richard Thompson

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

— Stevie Wonder

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is…

— Patty Griffin

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami