“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”

Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer

“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“The sweetest little song:

You go your way
I'll go your way too!”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

“A light broke in upon my brain, —
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased, and then it came again,
The sweetest song ear ever heard.”

George Gordon Byron The Prisoner of Chillon

“Well As for now I'm gonna hear the saddest songs
And sit alone and wonder
How you're making out
But as for me, I wish that I was anywhere with anyone
Making out.”

Chris Carrabba (1975) American musician

“Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.”

Richard Garnett (1835–1906) British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet

“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

“Why are our songs so dark but our shows a celebration? Because our songs are to help you get through those dark times and our shows are a celebration of you making it through another day. Our shows are celebrating the fact that you’re not alone. So let’s celebrate.”

Tyler Joseph (1988) American singer-songwriter and record producer

“The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children”

Philip Carr-Gomm (1945) British writer