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“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

Ifs Feels I Can Helping Pain Song Hurt Loss Audience Loneliness Cry Involved Guts Ache Lament Love Loss

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.”

Long Song Loss Fashion Grew Sentimentality Sweetheart Old Song

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?”

Writing Song Father Felt Loss Wonder Middle Months Cold Following Disappearance Old Song

Author:Linn Ullmann

“Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer.Â He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song.Â But the poor fellow topped himself.Â He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now.Â It was a terrible loss.”

Stills I Can Song Loss Poor Groups Terrible Fellows Very Good Lovely Without You Good Writers Ham Blokes

Author:Paul McCartney

“A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.”

People Helping Inspiration Pain Song Loss Grief Grief And Loss

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.”

Enough Pain Song Strong Hurt Loss Comfort Embrace Jazz Rejection Very Strong Alienation Abandonment

Author:Cecil Williams

“I would say the main themes are love, loss and life. Although a lot of the songs represent hard times and situations I think my album is positive, the message is things will get better.”

Thinking Song Loss Situation Get Better Hard Times Love Loss

Author:Roxanne Emery

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”

People Heart Kids Pain Song Culture Loss Music Worry Violence Sadness Broken Listening Gun Misery Scared Violent Video Teenager Rejection Fidelity Kids Playing

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”

Trying Stills Sometimes Feelings Artist Song Loss Space Cutting Missing Silent Following Holes Abandoned Loved Ones Time And Space Full Life Loss Of A Loved One Adrift Pascal Hissing

Author:Bono

“The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”

“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”

Doe Seems Song Speak Loss Loneliness Sad Things

Book:A Map of the Known World

Source: A Map of the Known World