Quotes About Melancholy

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

All music is the blues. All of it.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

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

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.