Happy Music Quotes

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  When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

  Frank Ocean

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

  Frank Ocean

  Enjoy, World Music

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

  Edward Gorey

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

  David Gilmour

  Tough, Knows

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Islands, Needs, Care

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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• When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.

  SonReal

  Morning, Coffee, Home

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Real, Artist, Sad Music

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• Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

  Michael Franti

  Song, War, Thinking

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• My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

  Mac Miller

  People, Problem, Forget

  "Mac Miller’s Tour Kicks Off As He Talks ‘Watching Movies with the Sound Off,’ Molly, And His Unexpected Success" by Madeline Boardman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

  Chris Barber

  Play, People, Making People Happy

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• Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

  Duncan Sheik

  Moving

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• Many a maiden,
  With white feet glancing light as air,
  Made happy music through the gloom.

  Euripides

  Dance, Light, Air

  "The Trojan Women".

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• It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

  Bela Fleck

  Inspiring, Music, Jazz

  Interview with Mike Brannon, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• There is no such thing as happy music.

  Franz Schubert

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• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beach, Boys, Beach Boys

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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