Quotes by Songwriters - Page 13

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
Bono
Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)
Courtney Love
The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.
Avi
Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don't last forever. That healing is possible.
Lecrae Moore
It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a different and better person because of it.
Hayley Williams
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
Lana Del Rey
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
Taylor Swift
Just be you. That's the best advice I can give. There are seven billion people in this world and there is no one like you.
Ed Sheeran
To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
Marvin Gaye
Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.
Nicki Minaj
Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.
George Harrison
In the end only kindness matters.
Jewel
I could go crazy on a night like tonightWhen summer's beginning to give up her fightAnd every thought's a possiblilityAnd the voices are heard but nothing is seenWhy do you spend this time with meMaybe an equal mystery
Emily Saliers
So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand)Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand yearsOr is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand)And if it ever was there and it leftDoes it mean it was never trueAnd to exist it must eludeIs that why I think these things of you?
Emily Saliers
I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about
Kate Nash
Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.
Stevie Nicks
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
Mick Jagger
And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway
Ed Sheeran
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
Jim Sturgess
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Johnny Cash
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.
Pete Wentz
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine.
Jason Mraz
This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.
Hayley Williams
Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
Jason Gray
The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.
Bono
The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
Steven Tyler
The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.
Pat Benatar
When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.
Bill Callahan
You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile
Bei Maejor
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
Sarah Brightman
you're Worth More Than Gold
Britt Nicole
Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music....I don't believe in heaven or hell, I don't really believe in that version.
Matthew Bellamy
Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel
Neil Young
Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.
Morrissey
It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.
Hayley Williams
What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.
Pete Waterman
Loneliness is a crowded room
Bryan Ferry
You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
Elvis Costello
I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it's the way that you walk.
Elvis Costello
I'm not like themBut I can pretend
Kurt Cobain
Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.
Rich Mullins
Loneliness is a crowded room,Full of open hearts turned to stone,All together all alone
Bryan Ferry
I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.
Richey Edwards
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
Steven Wilson
A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
I am," I saidTo no one thereAn no one heard at allNot even the chair"I am," I cried"I am," said IAnd I am lost, and I can't even say whyLeavin' me lonely still
Neil Diamond
Pale winter sun Is beatin' the ground Why'm I throwin' away The best thing that I've found My young heart's in tatters and I'm sureThat it will be a long time healing It's so hard to see what I'm doing this forWhen loneliness is all that I'm feeling
David Gray
I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.
Bill Callahan
Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
Soraya
I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at owning your own home. But you never thought you'd get a swimming pool. Now culture has hypnotised people into thinking they're really nothing if they're not wealthy and a Kardashian.
Tom Petty
It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.
Kurt Cobain
You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.
Emily Saliers
Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
Ira Levin
Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it.
Bono
David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.
Bono
Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.
Darlene Zschech
You deserve every mountain falling. You deserve every ocean reaching. You deserve all creation crying out your worth.You deserve all of Heaven singing. You deserve every nation rising, but I have heard that what You want most is my love.
Natalie Grant
Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.
Patti Smith
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
Rich Mullins