Quotes by Songwriters

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
Chester Bennington
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.
Bruce Springsteen
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
Cole Porter
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Bob Marley
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind
Eric Clapton
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
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb? Mother do you think they'll like this song? Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?Mother should I build the wall?Mother should I run for president?Mother should I trust the government?Mother will they put me in the firing line?Mother am I really dying?Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,Of course mama'll help to build the wall.Mother do you think she's good enough -- to me?Mother do you think she's dangerous -- to me?Mother will she tear your little boy apart?Mother will she break my heart?Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.Mama will always find out where you've been.Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,You'll always be baby to me.Mother, did it need to be so high?
Roger Waters
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
Patti Smith
Where do you go if you don’t belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.
Steven Wilson
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
With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar
The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!
George P. Morris
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.
George P. Morris
It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Charles Mackay
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
Now that I'm here where am I?
Janis Joplin
I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah show up."
Tom T. Hall
Soul appears when we make room for it.
Thomas Moore
It's important to be heroic ambitious productive efficient creative and progressive but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns of equal value: downtime for reflection conversation and reverie beauty that is captivating and pleasuring relatedness to the environs and to people and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.
Thomas Moore
John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave His soul goes marching on.
Thomas Brigham Bishop
Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
George Harrison
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.
Anita Baker
The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.
E.Y. Harburg
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Teddy Pendergrass
Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
John Lennon
Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
Daniel D. Emmett
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Teddy Pendergrass
Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
John Lennon
Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
Daniel D. Emmett
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias
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
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
John Lennon
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
Indigo Girls
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.
Margaret Becker
When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
Merle Haggard
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday