I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.
all this Beethoven and rain
John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .
Happiness is a sad song.
Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.
If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.
Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
