the other day i was driving and listening 2 The Dance.
i was really getting in2 it and all of a sudden i started crying, it bought back some bad memories that had happened around the time it was released
strangely enough, it was a good feeling

tafnap said:

i always cry when i hear 'when doves cry' and 'lets have a baby'.and then there are sometimes i listen to him and cry because i love him so much it hurts.....pathetic i know!!!
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His music has made me cry many many times....

Comeback.....enough said

Only at my third and his final show of the Purple Rain Tour in my city---because I knew I wouldn't see him again for a while.

Many times!
His music speaks to me in a way that is hard to put into words. It touches my heart and soul.
So, yeah...I've cried listening to Prince and seeing him in concert.

Whenever I watch the '96 interview with Bryant Gumbel, and he ask about the baby I get choked up. Thinking about how tough a time it must have been, and still having to go promote Emancipation. Having two children of my own I can only imagine the pain. All you would want to do is curl up and cry, not go to work. Props to you Prince!

When he came back to Philly for the Musicology concert he got such a standing ovation that he couldn't even start his song, it must have lasted for almost 10 minutes with whistles and cheers he just stood there and bowed and kept saying thank you. He got choked up and I saw tears in his eyes and I definetly had them in mine. Beautiful memory!
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Yes,everytime I hear his ballads ...

* His solo guitar performance in "while my guitar gently weeps".
* When he choked up at Musicology tour.

Ummm... Have you heard "Sometimes It Snows In April"?

Does it for me nearly everytime.

And a couple folks mentioned the Musicology tour. I was at the first Seattle show, and when he did his encore with "Purple Rain", I couldn't help myself.

And I'm not really a fan of that song.

Yeah. Waiting on that ninja to finally come on stage many a night. My feet were aching!

xlr8r said:

I feel your pain!!

Yes. Last month some family problems arose and while listening to "Purple Rain" the tears would just not stop flowing. There have been other times but last month was more significant to me.

Two albums in their entirety come to mind: New Power Soul and Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic. Both tearjerkers

Every day and night with from the "Other Side of the Pillow" not along for "The Ride", goes out for the Morning Paper but doesn't come back or forgets to be stand naked with a smile when I turn on my "Blue Light

Prince's Sarah

Yes.

yes. the guitar solo on "Just My Imagination" will still occasionally give me tears of joy.


and a few days ago, I listened to "Open Book" for the first time in... awhile. just about had a nervous breakdown.

You know that scene in Graffiti Bridge where the speeding automobile kills Ingrid Chavez's character? It lasted all of 30 seconds with the ambulance getting there immediately?

I laughed until I cried.

he stole my x-box

I was thinking this just the other day.
Listening to 'I love u but I don't trust u anymore'. I have never cried at a song before, but this one somehow strucka chord.

I guess it is about his break up with Mayte? If it is, then it's the saddest song I've ever heard. And beautiful to boot.

The only one of his songs I can remember ever shedding a tear to was "Power Fantastic." The genius of the instrumentation and the use of his voice in that song is what caused me to cry in amazement after I first heard it.

NewPowerSista said:

i saw Prince for the 1st time at 21 nights in London. I only managed to go 2 nights. The last night he was there I watched the 10 minutes they showed on Sky News and cired my eyes out when the footage ended - I wanted to be there so bad!

I also cry everytime at Sometimes it snows in April and Comeback

AND i've also just cried reading some of the other posts on here!

Yes, me too. He looks so sad when he does 'Sometimes it snows in April' on the ONA in Vegas DVD. I just sat there looking at him with tears in my eyes. That man can touch my heart like no other entertainer.

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The first time I heard "Purple Rain". I had bought it on cassette tape the day it was released, and was listening to it on my Ghetto Blaster on the rooftop of my building (while enjoying a cold beer, a doobie, and some sunshine). I don't know why because I didn't really get the lyrics on the first listen, and I had no concept of what the movie was going to be about yet, but something about that music just grabbed my heart - the rest is history.

On 7/7/07 in Minneapolis.... It was a really long time since I had seen Prince in concert. So decided to go to Minny to see the city and take in three concerts.

That was such a HOT day and the sun was just beating down our backs while standing in line for tickets to First Ave Show. We were CRYing as we waited almost all morning and afternoon for tickets. I was wearing strappy sandals and the straps were digging into my feet.... I was CRYing ....

yup everytime he promises 2 drop the hits but still does them

He makes me cry everytime I listen to him live.

He also makes me cry when I can't see him live.

Double edged sword.

In November 2007, my dad died. He was 71, and I remembered back to those days in my teens when he (at around 48-50) would scream up to me to "turn that bloody noise down" as I listened to Purple Rain over and over and over again.

A few days after he'd died, I went for a long walk with my ipod thru the woods, and I listened to Purple Rain from start to finish, and cried like a baby. Prince didn't (and couldn't) MAKE me cry, but his music, unbeknown to him, helped me get in touch with my feelings around my dad's death. The power of music.