Aggressive Quote by Porter Robinson

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

— Grimes

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard…

— Melanie Martinez

I write emotional music.

— Les Baxter

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

— Moby

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

— Cody Simpson

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

— Kevin Parker

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

— Branford Marsalis

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

— Jazmine Sullivan

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

— Zooey Deschanel

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

— Chris Cornell

The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this…

— Washed Out

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

— Keith Whitley