Quotes by Songwriters - Page 15

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
She is like a cat in the darkAnd then she is the darknessShe rules her life like a fine skylarkAnd when the sky is starlessAll your life you've never seen a womanTaken by the windWould you stay if she promised you heaven?Will you ever win?
Stevie Nicks
On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open
Bono
In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.
Michael Jackson
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine
Taylor Swift
Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better put 'em in quotations
John Mayer
Cause honey your soulcould never grow oldits evergreen
Ed Sheeran
I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
Morrissey
It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin
Don Henley
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well?
Thomas Moore
I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. I believe in life, which one day each of us shall lose. When we are young we think we won’t, that we are different. As a child I thought I would never grow up, that I could will it so. And then I realized, quite recently, that I had crossed some line, unconsciously cloaked in the truth of my chronology. How did we get so damn old? I say to my joints, my iron-colored hair. Now I am older than my love, my departed friends. Perhaps I will live so long that the New York Public Library will be obliged to hand over the walking stick of Virginia Woolf. I would cherish it for her, and the stones in her pocket. But I would also keep on living, refusing to surrender my pen.
Patti Smith
I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't
Kurt Cobain
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason Mraz
You promised me Heaven...And put me through Hell!
Bon Jovi
As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.
Sarah Weeks
In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
Patti Smith
I wish [that when] I was 12 years old I'd been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism — I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means.
Taylor Swift
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
E.Y. Harburg
achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.
Lou Gramm
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.
Thomas Moore
My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.
Taylor Swift
You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
Taylor Swift
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Jimi Hendrix
I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.
Lorde
Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see that we are all the same. So find the love inside yourself because every heart has a story to tell.
Sara Haze
We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.
Lorde
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.
Jewel
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
Bono
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Johnny Cash
Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!
Eminem
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made They can take the music that we'll never play All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday They can take the future that we'll never know They can take the places that we said we would go All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday
Leona Lewis
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Elvis Costello
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Stevie Wonder
Don't choose someone who's beautiful to the world. Choose someone who makes your world beautiful.
Harry Styles
Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime!
Kendall Schmidt
Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.
Morrissey
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
Taylor Swift
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
Kurt Cobain
The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
James Weldon Johnson
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
Bruce Springsteen
There's a time I can recallFour years old and three feet tallTrying to touch the stars and the cookie jarAnd both were out of reach
Hilary Weeks
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
Marvin Gaye
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson
I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.
Christina Perri
Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea.
Jennifer Rush
The worst things in life come free to us
Ed Sheeran
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.
Leonard Cohen
I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)
Taylor Swift
Be a true Heart, not a follower.
Ed Sheeran
I'm gay above the waist.
Pete Wentz
Secrets are powerful, and this was one of the most powerful of all.
Jennifer Rush
He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.
Patti Smith
I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.
Courtney Love
A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
Our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams
War is over ... If you want it.
John Lennon
So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]
Taylor Swift
Look for magic in daily routine.
Lou Barlow