Quotes by Songwriters - Page 20

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
Lil Wayne
The gift is you.
John Denver
I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
Amy Winehouse
The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.
Bono
The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose
Lou Reed
And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
Leonard Cohen
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
Christina Perri
This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the sameFirst we're both down to play and somehow you go astray
Iggy Azalea
Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
Florence Welch
I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
Shirley Manson
By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.
India.Arie
You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics; in physical laws every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely sure of it. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that "as you reap, so you will sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep s---. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity
Bono
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.
Jewel
I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.
Morrissey
I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought I’d speak it just the same.
Rod McKuen
There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in the room.
Bruce Springsteen
Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
Carrie Newcomer
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
Bob Marley
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
Mark Knopfler
Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.
Justin Bieber
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
Morrissey
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley
There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
Carrie Newcomer
Giving up is just saying that ice cream shouldn't be ice cream because one person says it isn't ice cream, giving up is like saying that hot dogs are hot cats. Giving up is like saying burgers are nasty which they aren't. What I'm trying to say is giving up is not a pathway to success giving up is just an easier way to just fail in life, now that I'm done saying that I'm going to go get food.
Sofia Reyes
You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.
Steven Tyler
Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here.
Bruce Springsteen
You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.
Logan Henderson
No I did not call in sick to work todayNo I'm not out hanging with my friendsThere's no more wasting timeOn what I think I'm supposed to doMy clock is standing still soI can have my dream life lifeWith the ones I lovePlaying all day longLaying back by the water sideWith nowhere to goAnd the music onI'm working hard for my dream lifeTo be my real lifeAnd that can't be wrongAll I have is this lifeSo I'm making it what I want
Colbie Caillat
True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.
Joel Balin
think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did ― it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me.
Taylor Swift
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
Nicki Minaj
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Patti Smith
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
Ed Sheeran
It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
Chester Bennington
I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind! There was something so special about that place...even your emotions had an echo...and so much space!
CeeLo Green
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
She's young and the world's wide open.
Jason Aldean
Some need diamonds some need loveSome need cards some need luckSome need dollar bills lining their clothesall I need is, all I need is two white horses in a line
Beck
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
Morrissey
And now, the end is near,And so I face the final curtain.My friend, I'll say it clear,I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.I've lived a life that's full.I've traveled each and every highway;And more, much more than this,I did it my way.
Jacques Revaux
I believe in the person I want to become.I believe in the freedom of the open road.And my motto is the same as ever:"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.
Lana Del Rey
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
Taylor Swift
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
Shahin Najafi
It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers,
Hayley Williams
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.
James Weldon Johnson
Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.
Harry Ruby
The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.
Owl City
We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom
Mark Knopfler
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
Bono
I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.
Björk
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Michael Jackson
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
Neil Young
Music is about bringing light to others.
Avi Kaplan Pentatonix
It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena)
Justin Bieber
The worst crime is faking it
Kurt Cobain
I am incapable of mediocrity.
Serge Gainsbourg