Amount Quote by M. Ward

I think it's really easy to write a miserable song, and it's really easy to criticise a happy-sounding song. So it's daunting to write…

— Ellie Rowsell

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

— Eric Bachmann

I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There…

— Luke Combs

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

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

— Natalie Imbruglia

In terms of songwriting I think it might be a circular thing. I tend to go back and forth between quieter melancholy songs and…

— Thalia Zedek

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes…

— Nate Ruess

I think every song is very different; some of them are sad and some aren't. But I do like to pull inspiration from whatever…

— Benson Boone

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind…

— Jakob Dylan

What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed…

— Steve Earle

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 just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

— John Prine