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• 'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Real, Cutting

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same time. It's really strange. They kind of manage to do two things at once. We do a ballad, or a dance song, and it's very difficult. They kind of mix those two things together. It's pretty impressive, beautiful music.

  Patrick Watson

  Beautiful, Song, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Song, Pain

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

  James Joyce

  Song, Sadness, Sleep

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.1674, eBookIt.com

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• I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I didn't understand for a long time. But I do now. The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.

  Harlan Coben

  Song, Hurt, Pain

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• Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Taken, Play

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• And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

  Patrick Ness

  Song, Promise, One Day

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• Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

  Mark Chesnutt

  Song, Sadness, Night

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• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Dying, Green

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

  Reba McEntire

  Country, Song, Eclectic Style

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• There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Real, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Insane

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• The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Beautiful, Song, Way

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• Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.

  Lu Xun

  Song, Hero, Home

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• I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

  George Jackson

  Song, War, Army

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Song, Home, Car

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.

  Edward Thomas

  Song, Autumn, Dark

  Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

  Richard Kadrey

  Song, Hate, Self

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• I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.

  Harlan Howard

  Country, Song, Heart

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• I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

  Beth Ditto

  Sad Love, Country, Song

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

  Teddy Thompson

  Song, Self, Englishmen

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