Quotes by Songwriters - Page 14

it feels so scary getting old.
Lorde
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!
Sheldon Harnick
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.
Lorde
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Teddy Pendergrass
He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
Bob Marley
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
Morrissey
The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.
Bruce Springsteen
I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.
Layne Staley
And the movement in your brainSends you out into the rain
Nick Drake
Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.
Kurt Cobain
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
Björk
It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.
Jewel
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney
All of us are products of our childhood.
Michael Jackson
If you believe in something, then you shouldn’t give up on it.
Harry Styles
If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.
Curtis Mayfield
Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
Blake Lewis
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
Marvin Gaye
Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.
Darlene Zschech
A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.
Carrie Newcomer
We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.While the media elite declare what to think,I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.
Otep Shamaya
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Jason Mraz
But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad,and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.
Aimee Mann
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon
Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world's a sunny day,Oh yeah!I've got a Nikon camera, I'd love to take a photograph,so mama don't take...my Kodachrome away...
Paul Simon
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
Bob Marley
Ah, grief makes us precise!
Leonard Cohen
Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.
Jenna McDougall
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob Marley
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
Neil Young
Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
Beck
I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.
Eddie Vedder
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.
Margaret Becker
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
Eminem
Because there's beauty in the breakdown.
Imogen Heap
Tonight we flyOver the mountainsThe beach and the seaOver the friends that we've knownAnd those that we now knowAnd those who we've yet to meetAnd when we dieOh, will we beThat disappointedOr sadIf heaven doesn't existWhat will we have missedThis life is the best we've ever had
Neil Hannon
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe
A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.
Jim Kerr
now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?
Hayley Williams
You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile
Bei Maejor
Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
Morrissey
I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.
Johnny Marr
The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not
George Michael
We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Rich Mullins
These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn’t aware that when people are showing you guns, they’re not threatening you, it’s like they’re showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.
John Lydon
If I ever get to go to the moon, I’ll probably just stand on the moon and go ‘Hmmm, yeah…fair enough…gotta go home now.
Noel Gallagher
They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.
Scotty McCreery
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
Aimee Mann
If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they
Sting
Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: "It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That’s always going to be my main goal, that’s always what I’m going to strive for, to be a normal human being. It’s interesting because you’re put in really abnormal situations. You have an abnormal-size microscope covering your life and everything you do. You look at the idea of being 22, that’s when you’re supposed to be out there living and being selfish and making mistakes and messing up. If I mess up once, it’s a headline everywhere.
Taylor Swift
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...
John Mayer
I remember watching him perform these endless, boring violin solos, with his long hair flowing behind him like an Afghan hound in a gale, and thinking, 'what a tosser.
Chris Difford
Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
Lana Del Rey
Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thought his tactics were dirty and when I shouted as much, he came over & forced me to retract.
Pete Townshend
Peace is a conscious choice.
John Denver
Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!
Morrissey
I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.
Chris Brown
You know you've done enoughWhen every bone is sore,You know you've prayed enoughWhen you don't ask any more,You know you're coming to some kind of understandingWhen every dream you've dreamed has passedAnd your still standing.
Patty Griffin