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'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President Kennedy's assassination. We didn't write words about that, but it was around that time we recorded that song, and there's a lot of emotion involved there.

— Mike Love

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

— Jamie xx

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

— Greg Ginn

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

— Ethel Waters

I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

— Serj Tankian

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

— Paul Dano

I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

✗Opposing Perspectives

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

— Jackson Browne

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

— Bob Seger

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

— Theodore White