Art Quote by Glen Hansard

I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear…

— B. B. King

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and…

— Mike Mills

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

— Hiromi

Making sad music, it's not for me. I don't find that interesting.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

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

— Rory O'Malley

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

— Richard Thompson

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And what I love about music and art in general is that you can take something so negative or positive - any emotion, no…

— Amber Liu