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Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

— Robert Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

All my songs are different, but from the overall experience, I want people to sense that they can overcome and move through difficult times and find strength in my music. Maybe it's a song that makes them cry and move through something else.

— Michael Franti

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

— Mary Lambert

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

— Ji-Hae Park

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

— Blu Cantrell

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

— Reba McEntire

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

— Ziggy Marley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

— Ciara

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

— Susannah McCorkle

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

— Bobby Womack

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

— Linda Ronstadt