A Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
The still, sad music of humanity.
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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?
I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.
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