Important Quote by Taylor Goldsmith

I don't really connect with super-sad, somber songs.

— Andy Grammer

For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while,…

— Donald Ray Pollock

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

— Chris Cornell

I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

— Britt Daniel

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

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're…

— Tim McGraw

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

— Trent Reznor

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I…

— John Wesley Harding

I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.

— Aaron Bruno

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just…

— Dido Armstrong

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

— Townes Van Zandt