Mitch Miller Quotes

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

I love writing sad songs.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

Blue' is actually my favorite chapter because it captures sadness more than the other chapters. That might sound weird but I've always been drawn to the rawest emotions.

I write a lot of sad songs!

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.