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You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

— Jonathan Cain

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.

— Chris Barber

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

— Michael Franti

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

— Rick Allen

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

— John Mellencamp

People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.

— Estelle

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

— Chester Bennington

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

— Abraham Lincoln

Realize that you can't make everyone happy.

— Craig Newmark

If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.

— Mike Posner

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— J. Tillman