Quotes by Singer-Songwriters - Page 3

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I’m drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.
Laura Marling
I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I’m grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I’m only here until I figure out how to get out again.
Laura Marling
People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.
Laura Marling
I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.
Laura Marling
It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
Rob Thomas
I'm playing checkers while they're playing chessThey make the big moves that make me a little lessEven when I win and beat the pants off of the bestI'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess
Billy Joe Shaver
If I were a zombieI'd never eat your brainI'd just want your heart
Stephanie Mabey
She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain
Billy Joel
In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing
Joni Mitchell
Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of…you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.
Joanna Newsom
And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone
Billy Joel
If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.
Frank Ocean
You can go a hundred miles a second Don't have to drive no lousy cab Got everything you want and more man And the King picks up the tab You walk around on streets of gold all day And you never have to listen To what these customers say and I know...
Marc Cohn
There's a stranger in a car Driving down your street Acts like he knows who you are Slaps his hand on the empty seat and says "Are you gonna get in Or are you gonna stay out?" Just a stranger in a car Might be the one they told you about Well you never were one for cautiousness You open the door He gives you a tender kiss And you can't even hear them no more --All the voices of choices Now only one road remains And strangers in a car Two hearts Two souls Tonight Two lanes You don't know where you're goin' You don't know what you're doin' Hell it might be the highway to heaven And it might be the road to ruin But this is a song For strangers in a car Baby maybe that's all We really are Strangers in a car (Driving down your street) Just strangers in a car (Driving down your street) Strangers in a car
Marc Cohn
I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.
Peter Bradley Adams
All these years the people said 'He’s acting like a kid.' He did not know he could not fly, so he did. Well he’s one of those that knows that life is just a leap of faith. So spread your arms, hold your breath and always trust your cape.
Guy Clark
I've never feared the unexpected.
Kate Voegele
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
Tori Amos
Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me
Matthew West
I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.
Kate Voegele
...And you're the only one who knows.
Billy Joel
I salute to you Commanderand I sneeze'Cause I have Nowan AllergyTo your policies it seemsWhere have we gone wrong America?Mr. Lincoln we can't seemto find you anywhere out of the millionsFrom the desertsTo the mountainsOver prairiesTo the shoresIs this just the Madness of King GeorgeYo GeorgeIs this just the Madness of King GeorgeYo GeorgeWell you have the whole Nationon all fours.
Tori Amos
We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
Joni Mitchell
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
Tori Amos
It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die
Paolo Nutini
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
Joni Mitchell
In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along
Billy Joel
you dont know what you got till its gone
Joni Mitchell
My choice is what I choose to do,And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is who you choose to be,And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.
Ben Harper
You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
Fiona Apple
This machine kills fascists.
Woody Guthrie
I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
Alanis Morissette
So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
Tori Amos
Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
Tori Amos
What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?
Laura Story
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
Fiona Apple
When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
Alanis Morissette
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there
Alanis Morissette
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
Ben Harper
There's something in everyone only they know.
Ben Harper
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind
Ray Lamontagne
This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket.
Tori Amos
The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
Tori Amos
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
Phil Ochs
But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.
Phil Ochs
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
Phil Ochs
There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand.
Guy Clark
I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin—a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.
Vanessa Carlton
As I went walking I saw a sign thereAnd on the sign it said "No Trespassing."But on the other side it didn't say nothing,That side was made for you and me.This land is your land, this land is my landFrom California to the New York islandFrom the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
Joni Mitchell
Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.
Tracy Chapman
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
Fiona Apple
The problem with all fields of research is that people are impatient. It a particular line of enquiry seems to be making progress, we continue down the line, but if it seems to be getting nowhere, we abandon it. This is a problem because the route to the future is often tortuous. Things seems to be moving towards the goal but then unexpectedly snake off in the wrong direction. Initially unproductive approaches can often turn out to be the only ones that lead to the desired destination.
Steve Grand
Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.
Robb Johnson
If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.
Tom Lehrer
The problem with all fields of research is that people are impatient. It a particular line of enquiry seems to be making progress, we continue down the line, but if it seems to be getting nowhere, we abandon it. This is a problem because the route to the future is often tortuous. Things seems to be moving towards the goal but then unexpectedly snake off in the wrong direction. Initially unproductive approaches can often turn out to be the only ones that lead to the desired destination.
Steve Grand
Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.
Robb Johnson
If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.
Tom Lehrer