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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

— Malcolm Wilson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

— Natalie Imbruglia

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

— Taylor Swift

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.

— Moby

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

— Beth Ditto

I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.

— Dickey Betts

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

— Mary Lambert

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

— Benmont Tench

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

— Natalie Imbruglia

When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.

— Kygo

✗Opposing Perspectives

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

— Merle Travis