“Elliott: "Do you want to hear a happy or a sad song?"Crowd: "Happy!"Elliott: "Old or new?"Crowd: "Old!"Elliott: "Happy and old, that's a strange choice."”

“You've made a happy man very old.”

Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian

“I wanted your songs.
You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

“I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.”

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”

Jin Shengtan (1610–1661) Chinese writer

“Roger: We’re playing like three songs and the old stuff that everyone wants to hear too. We can’t play just all brand new songs you got to mix it up a little.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician