Quotes by Songwriters - Page 11

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.
Jason Gray
Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.
Lil Wayne
LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
Hayley Williams
I make positive choices so I can be happy.
Hayley Williams
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Elvis Costello
The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.
Morrissey
As human beings we are plagued with inordinate affections. We love green pieces of paper more than God. We love balls made out of pigskin more than God. We've shown we even love apples more than God. We, like Esau, have traded our birthright- the dignity of our shameless, joy-filled, glory-beholding, glory-reflecting existence- for a bowl of beans.
Matt Papa
Be good, or be good at it.
Lil Wayne
If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.
Curtis Mayfield
I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.
Pete Doherty
You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
Taylor Swift
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
Crawling out of the flophouseI saw the mayor stealing my junkI doth protest, citizen's arrestNow my body's in his trunkWhere's the shadow government when you need it?Where's the shadow government?It's a bad, bad world!
They Might Be Giants
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams
Sherman Edwards
First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.
Pete Wentz
It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.
Taylor Swift
How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.
Leonard Cohen
There’s something so beautiful about people who are heartbroken; they think about how they’re feeling much more. I think when you’re happy and when you’re in love, you don’t need to think about it, it’s just there. Love is one of those things that is so simple, you don’t need to think about it when it’s good, you only need to think about it when it’s bad, so when music is all that you have and you’re lonely or you’re missing someone and you write a song that says exactly how you feel, there is sort of a gratification you get from that, it almost helps you move on.
Taylor Swift
I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't!
Justin Bieber
Some people don't care if they live or they die.Some people want to know what it feels like to fly.They gather their courage and they give it a tryAnd fall under the wheels of time going by.
Patty Griffin
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned
Alicia Keys
And when I saw you kissing that girlMy heart, it shattered and my eyes, they wateredAnd when I tried to speak, I stuttered
Kate Nash
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...
Alicia Keys
Falling down ain't falling down,If you don't cry when you hit the floor,It's called the past cause I'm getting past,And I ain't nothing like I was before,You ought to see me now
Alicia Keys
I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are
Taylor Swift
You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay.
Ani DiFranco
But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now
Carrie Newcomer
Our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams
There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.
Amy Winehouse
Bash it out now, tart it up later.
Nick Lowe
I want fame now, not after I'm dead.
Morrissey
I am sailing on a ship bound for life. a line in a song
Phil Wickham
Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
Bob Marley
Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
Steven Tyler
If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen
Amy Lee
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
My love for you is immeasurableMy respect for you immenseYou're ageless, timeless, lace and finenessYou're beauty and eleganceYou're a rhapsody, a comedyYou're a symphony and a playYou're every love song ever writtenBut honey what do you see in me?You're in my heart, you're in my soulYou'll be my breath should I grow oldYou are my lover, you're my best friendYou're in my soul
Rod Stewart
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
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
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.
Jeremy Camp
I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon version of me, you know, this man-eating, jet-setting serial dater who reels them in, but scares them off because she’s clingy and needy; then she’s all dejected, so she goes into her lair and writes a song as a weapon. I mean, man, that’s pretty intense. And I started thinking about what an interesting character that person is. And, if I was that person, what would my life motto be, my mantra? What would I say? I think I’d own it.
Taylor Swift
I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "authenticity" would be what you made of it, a hall of mirrors. Put on the work shirt, young man. No big deal. As you get older, it won't concern you. It's just the lay of the land. In your youth, however, you are easy prey for the many tricks of the mind. At this moment, I know my mid is not at its most centered. I can tell because I'm afraid, and that's not my style; I don't need to be, but I am.
Bruce Springsteen
We are what we are...
Ke$ha
We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.
Rich Mullins
He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)
Patti Smith
Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to say things like that anymore. I was sick of that kind of lying. I wished I could say something real.But the silence was too big.
Avi
Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.
Sarah Weeks
Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.
Sarah Weeks
To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.
Sarah Weeks
Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.
Sarah Weeks
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid
Sting
You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His.
Matt Hammitt
I'd rather die than live without passion.
Jeon Jungkook
For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.
Hayley Williams
I feel the magic between you and I
Eric Carmen
Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.
Hilary Duff
I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well
Taylor Swift
Don't choose the one who's beautiful to the world, but rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
Harry Styles