Quotes by Songwriters - Page 8

0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world.
Thomas Moore
Even through the darkest phaseBe it thick or thinAlways someone marches braveHere beneath my skin
k.d. lang
The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.
Pat Benatar
I wish that life could be carefree, sunny, never cloudy- But you said that I would be in Your arms when things get crazy- so when the storm doesn't go away- I have decided to sing in the rain.
Moriah Peters
Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules...
Stevie Nicks
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury
Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
Juliet Simms
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
Lauryn Hill
I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
Merle Haggard
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.
Jeremy Camp
The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
Mick Jagger
Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.
Pete Townshend
Don't take life to seriously, its not like you're going to get out alive! #Life
Hazim Bangwar
It's so shameful of me: I like you.
Morrissey
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
Iggy Pop
As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.
Bruce Springsteen
Oooh you think I'm cute when I'm angry?? Well get ready, cause I'm about to get GORGEOUS!
Hazim Bangwar
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.
Beth Ditto
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
John Lennon
Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.
Jason Mraz
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley
You have to set somebody free for them to return
Candice Night
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
Lana Del Rey
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.
Taylor Swift
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.
Danny Elfman
Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.
Sarah Weeks
I rub my hand down my face, frustrated. This girl in front of me tests my patience like hell. When she ran to me after her dad kicked her out, I thought she still had feelings for me. She needed a place to stay, and I needed her. I offered her a room, thinking if she was around me every day, she would remember she loves me. I was dead wrong. Somewhere along the way, we switched roles, I became the one who so desperately needed her and she became cold and closed off. She isn’t my savior; she’s my punishment.
Brittany Butler
Then I heard your voice as clear as day, And you told me I should concentrate, It was all so strange, And so surreal, That a ghost should be so practical. Only if for a night And the only solution was to stand and fight, And my body was bruised and I was set alight, But you came over me like some holy rite, And although I was burning, You're the only light Only if for a night
Florence Welch
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
John Lennon
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Hilary Duff
Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
Roger Waters
People tell me not to cook, drive, or touch anything for the sake of world peace.
Namjoon
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.
Stevie Nicks
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
Indigo Girls
All is full of love
Björk
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
Kurt Cobain
Fear is peace and Peace is fear
Sofia Reyes
Don't give up when you still have something to give. Because nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying,
Austin Mahone
No soldier ever really survives a war.
Audie Murphy
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts," Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo!
Jennifer Rush
A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a person and a man, what does that make them then? Lowlife or high living, you give as good as you get, and I don't think women's sex lives have a thing to do with the kinds of human beings they are.
Waylon Jennings
There will never be no love at all.
Bob Marley
Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.
k.d. lang
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
Michael Jackson
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Boy George
He'd like you to join the club that likes to saythere's no such thing as love ...
Patty Griffin
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Patti Smith
Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
Peter Yarrow
I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because they’re sincere in it. Or somebody who’s really emotional, and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes them beautiful because that’s sincerely who they are
Taylor Swift
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.
Taylor Swift
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.
James Hetfield
These spider webs are my home now
Beck
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
Lana Del Rey
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.
Ray Charles
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
Pete Wentz
In another corner Nathaniel murmured to Maura, "You must know, Miss O'Connell, I . . . I loved you even before I saw you. It was your father's way of talking."Maura shook her head. "You mustn't say that. It's not my dear da's words that should do the wooing," she said gently. "I'd rather be cared for . . . for what I am myself."Nathaniel nodded. "I'll not say more. But I will tell you what I think I'm going to do."And what is thatI'm going to California to search for gold."And do you think, Nathaniel Brewster, you'll find it?"I do. But it won't be as fine as what's here," Nathaniel said with a shy smile. "Maura O'Connell . . . will . . . will you . . . wait for me to come back?"Maura was silent.Will you?"You're a fine young man, Mr. Brewster. I can only say I'll not forget you.
Avi
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
Sara Bareilles
In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!
Bob Marley