Quotes by Songwriters - Page 2

This album is called "FEARLESS," and I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To me, "FEARLESS" is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again … even though every time you've tried before, you've lost. It's FEARLESS to have that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them. I think it's FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to top believing them. It's FEARLESS to say, "you're NOT sorry", and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright … That's FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.
Taylor Swift
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
Avril Lavigne
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!
John Mayer
For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.
Sarah Weeks
u should not be afraid of doing what ur mind tells you 2 do...just listen 2 ur heart...never say never
Justin Bieber
People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this...
Bobby Darin
I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.
Cher Lloyd
Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one more chanceSave me from this road I'm onJesus take the wheel
Carrie Underwood
He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.
Pete Wentz
Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3
Lecrae Moore
And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget
Shania Twain
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.
Taylor Swift
It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.
Hayley Williams
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.
Chester Bennington
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Ed Sheeran
I don't think we can solve the outside problemsuntil we solve the ones within.
Jon Foreman
I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I would maintain my persona as Jenni, the Rivera Rebel who had never lost a fight. But deep down inside I knew I had lost a piece of myself that I would never recover. My soul had been shattered, but to the outside world I did just as I had been taught since I was a little girl; I kept my head up and continued forward. It is, after all, the Rivera way.
Jenni Rivera
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
Aimee Mann
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
Rich Mullins
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
Carrie Underwood
Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.
Kendall Schmidt
I don't wanna be a lover,I just wanna be your victim.
Elvis Costello
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
It's what we think of ourselves that matter!
Kendall Schmidt
Lonesome tearsI can't cry them anymoreI can't think of what they're forOh they ruin me every timeBut I'll try to leave behind some daysThese tears just can't eraseI don't need them anymoreHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feelLazy sun your eyes catch the lightWith the promises that mightCome true for awhileOh I'll ride farther than I shouldHarder than I couldJust to meet you thereHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feel
Beck
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
Patti Smith
I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
TobyMac
Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.
Morrissey
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...
Alicia Keys
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Bono
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
Patti Smith
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
Bono
Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.
Kendall Schmidt
He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.
Pete Wentz
what would you call this haircut?"arthur.
George Harrison
I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.
Patti Smith
With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
George Harrison
Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.
Bonnie Raitt
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
Morrissey
I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit?
Erykah Badu
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
Coincidence makes sense only with you.
Björk
You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.
Glenn Jones
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
Florence Welch
Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.
P!nk
I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me an identity and I gave them my tears, my heart, and my truth.
Carole Bayer Sager
The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence
Jewel
Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.
George Harrison
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.
Lou Reed
Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery
Pete Wentz
You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin
Rodney Crowell
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
The best fiction is true.
Kinky Friedman
I am half child, half ancient.
Björk
My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret
Leonard Cohen
She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.
Jeremy Camp
My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.
Jewel
Falling in love is painful on the knees.
Jon Bon Jovi