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  • I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

  • Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!

  • I think music is better listened to with other people. Music is better shared. It depends what situation you're in - if it's a song by Tom Waits, it can be nice to be on your own, but if it's something slightly more upbeat, it's amazing to be around people.

    Song   Nice   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

  • I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad.

    "Michael Kiwanuka: For Those Who Think Young". Interview With Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2012.
  • So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  • Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

  • Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

    Style   Upbeat   Pops  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.437, W. W. Norton & Company
  • There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

  • What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

    Girl   Cheer   Optimistic  
  • I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

    Upbeat   Bigs   Chorus  
    Interview with A-j Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.
  • When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

    Song   People   Albums  
    "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.
  • I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  • Being upbeat is the key to life.

    Keys   Upbeat  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • "Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss." "What?" I ask. "The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that." And then he asks me if I'd like to perform on a new singing program he's launching in a few weeks. Something upbeat would be good. He'll send the crew to my house.

    Thinking   Katniss   Race  
    "Mockingjay". Book by Suzanne Collins, August 24, 2010.
  • If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

    Sex   Swings   Romance  
  • For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

  • And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?

    Ideas   Space   Choices  
  • You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic worship style, that means upbeat music and a more lively style of preaching usually, people are allowed to clap, say "Amen," whether they're mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and Catholics, whatever, they're much more likely to be integrated.

    Mean   People   Catholic  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family.

    Upbeat   Enjoy  
  • [My favorite decade] probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one .

    People   Dying   World  
    Source: www.goldminemag.com
  • The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.

    David Borgenicht, Ben Winters, Robin Epstein (2011). “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School”, p.60, Chronicle Books
  • If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

    John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

    "City Aphorisms: Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.
  • My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

  • I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

    People   Want   Way  
    "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.
  • You know when you are doing a movie like [Ted Bundy] you try to as much as you can keep it upbeat when you are not working on the scene, so you cannot totally get disgusted and lost in it and also from my point of view I was ignorant to it all what was kind of going on.

    Source: actionflickchick.com
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