Dark Quote by Ellie Rowsell

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music…

— Andrew Bird

The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You…

— M. Ward

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy…

— Elton John

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

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

— Peter Gabriel

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than…

— Amy Macdonald

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

— Martin Gore

I think the majority of my music is dark, but the reason it's tolerable is that there's always a little bit of hope in…

— Everlast

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that…

— Matt Skiba

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me…

— Gavin Rossdale

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing…

— Adam Levine

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips