Quotes by Songwriters

I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible
Shontelle
There’s something so beautiful about people who are heartbroken; they think about how they’re feeling much more. I think when you’re happy and when you’re in love, you don’t need to think about it, it’s just there. Love is one of those things that is so simple, you don’t need to think about it when it’s good, you only need to think about it when it’s bad, so when music is all that you have and you’re lonely or you’re missing someone and you write a song that says exactly how you feel, there is sort of a gratification you get from that, it almost helps you move on.
Taylor Swift
It's too cold outsideFor angels to flyAn angel will dieCovered in whiteClosed eyeAnd hoping for a better lifeThis time, we'll fade out tonightStraight down the line
Ed Sheeran
Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.
Lorde
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Jennifer Rush
I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.
Morrissey
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
Lana Del Rey
When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.
Noel Gallagher
A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
Carrie Newcomer
The only thing that gets you through is the firm, unbreakable belief that you have something special to offer. It's why people like Jack Nicholson make it when they're 30 and become one of the greatest actors to ever live. I'm sure when he was 21 someone said, "You ain't got it, kid!" But there is something innate inside us that tells us to not give up. And then you get better. I'm a much better singer and performer now than I was 10 years ago. If you believe in yourself, anything's possible.
Robin Thicke
Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
Taylor Swift
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
Waylon Jennings
Think I'll miss you forever,Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
Lana Del Rey
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")
Sting
This empty kitchen's whereI'd while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou'd usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf this old neighborhoodSurvived us both alrightDon't know that it withstoodAll the things that took our lightYou on the stairI can see you thereEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onOnce there was a little girlUsed to wonder what she would beWent out into the big wide worldNow she's just a memoryThere used to be a little school hereWhere I learned to write my nameBut time has been a little cruel hereTime has no shameIt's just a place whereWe used to liveIt's just a place whereWe used to liveNow in another townYou lead another lifeAnd now upstairs and downYou're someone else's wifeHere in the dustThere's not a trace of usEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIt's just a place whereWe used to liveIt's just a place whereWe used to live.
Mark Knopfler
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
Aimee Mann
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult – we were faced with more challenges. I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it. When he walked in every woman’s head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him. He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn’t contain himself. I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him. And in that way, I understood him and I loved him.I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.And I still love him. I love him.
Lana Del Rey
He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.
Patti Smith
If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen
Amy Lee
We hate it when our friends become successful.
Morrissey
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's looking forSomebody's arms to fall intoAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThere's frost on the graves and the monumentsBut the taverns are warm in townPeople curse the governmentAnd shovel hot food downThe lights are out in the city hallThe castle and the keepThe moon shines down upon it allThe legless and asleepAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the wagons creeping throughCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThe garrison sleeps in the citadelWith the ghosts and the ancient stonesHigh up on the parapetA Scottish piper stands aloneAnd high on the windThe highland drums begin to rollAnd something from the past just comesAnd stares into my soulAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the Caledonian BluesCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowWhat it isIt's what it is nowThere's a chink of light, there's a burning wickThere's a lantern in the towerWee Willie Winkie with a candlestickStill writing songs in the wee wee hoursOn Charlotte Street I takeA walking stick from my hotelThe ghost of Dirty DickIs still in search of Little NellAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowOh what it isWhat it is now
Mark Knopfler
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil
Eminem
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman
I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.
Patti Smith
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Michael Jackson
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
Rich Mullins
I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.
Iggy Pop
Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.
Adam Young
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.
Taylor Swift
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
Nicky Wire
Don't choose the one who's beautiful to the world, but rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
Harry Styles
I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
Morrissey
You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
Jason Mraz
I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI’m a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneI’ll write up a scene on a counter- confessions and sins in the main, boysconfessions and sins in the mainThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging dayThey come rattling over the cobblesthey sit on their coffins of blackSome are struck dumb, some gabbletop-heavy on brandy or sackThe pews are all full of fine fellowsand the hawker has set up her shopAs they’re turning them off at the gallowsshe’ll be selling right under the drop, boysselling right under the dropThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day
Mark Knopfler
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
Thomas Moore
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Kurt Cobain
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
John Lennon
Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
Soraya
I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it's the way that you walk.
Elvis Costello
when the words not enough to describe how much you love....even you know she/he don't anything for you......you cant fall a sleep exactly like before's"-kuntal
Bob Marley
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Daniel Johns
My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.
Jeff Beck
If they don`t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more
Taylor Swift
Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die
Leonard Cohen
Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.
Chris Martin
Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare
Sofia Reyes
I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name
Lana Del Rey
My hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken
Jewel
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.
Hilary Duff
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
Morrissey
I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
Ke$ha
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
I won't regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be.
Kate Nash
He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)
Patti Smith
When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
Steven Wilson
You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.
Jason Aldean
You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the ground-Roar
Katy Perry