Broken inside Quote by Willa Strayhorn

“Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.”

— Thea Harrison

“It’s raw power. It’s brokenhearted and pissed off about it. The music itself brings order to chaos. Listening to it, playing it, for me…

— Cherrie Lynn

“It’s the kind of music you want to listen to while you lay on the grass and get lost in the sky. It feels…

— Autumn Doughton

“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through…

— Hannah Harrington

“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.”

— Lauren DeStefano

Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

“It's the best kind of devastating there is. He took his pain and he turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect…

— Hannah Harrington

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

— Sarah Dessen

“I’m convinced that there is nothing ​truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.”

— Kay Whitley

“I like beautiful melodies telling you terrible things," Waits said of such songs. "Is it my thorny, dark, oozing side, or is it just…

— Barney Hoskyns

“I’ve heard a million beautiful songs, but it’s the quiet hum of nature that stirs my soul.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“There is a broken song that plays over in my head each time I hear someone say his name.”

— Elizabeth Heller