"The place where joy and sorrow meet is a gateway to creativity, connection and love."
"People play the happy songs on their playlists about 175 times on average, but they play the sad songs 800 times. And they tell researchers that they associate sad music with beauty and wonder and transcendence, the so-called sublime emotions. And you know, just think of how many musical genres tap into sorrow, right. There’s Spanish flamenco and Portuguese fado and the Irish lament and American country music and the blues. And then even lullabies, which all over the world we often use our most heartbreaking melodies to sing our newborns to sleep. Why on Earth do we do that?" - Susan Cain
TED Talk: The Hidden Power of Sad Songs and Rainy Days