There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good f… — Mike Figgis

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Mike FiggisDirector · English · b. 1948

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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. — William Wordsworth
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. — James Baldwin
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