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We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

— Tina Weymouth

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

— Natalie Cole

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

— La India

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

— Aaliyah

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

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

— Richard Thompson

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

— Cab Calloway

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

— Bebe Rexha

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

— Susannah McCorkle

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

— Kurt Cobain

✗Opposing Perspectives

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

— Ian Williams