Best Quote by Jens Lekman

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just…

— Eyvind Kang

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me…

— Aurora

I like songs that can be dark or threatening or dangerous, but its a better song if you can keep that and somehow stick…

— Mike Campbell

I've always had a tendency to keep an emergency exit in a song. I can't remember ever writing a song that is completely and…

— KT Tunstall

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

— Jazmine Sullivan

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

— Nate Ruess

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is…

— Eric Bachmann

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the…

— Thom Yorke

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to…

— Brendon Urie

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

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

— Rayvon Owen