Quotes by Songwriters - Page 16

I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I would maintain my persona as Jenni, the Rivera Rebel who had never lost a fight. But deep down inside I knew I had lost a piece of myself that I would never recover. My soul had been shattered, but to the outside world I did just as I had been taught since I was a little girl; I kept my head up and continued forward. It is, after all, the Rivera way.
Jenni Rivera
Even through the darkest phaseBe it thick or thinAlways someone marches braveHere beneath my skin
k.d. lang
My hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken
Jewel
Listen, babyAin't no mountain highAin't no valley lowAin't no river wide enough, babyIf you need me, call meNo matter where you areNo matter how farJust call my nameI'll be there in a hurryYou don't have to worry'Cause baby,There ain't no mountain high enoughAin't no valley low enoughAin't no river wide enoughTo keep me from getting to youRemember the dayI set you freeI told youYou could always count on meFrom that day on I made a vowI'll be there when you want meSome way,some how'Cause baby,There ain't no mountain high enoughAin't no valley low enoughAin't no river wide enoughTo keep me from getting to youNo wind, no rainMy love is aliveWay down in my heartAlthough we are miles apartIf you ever need a helping handI'll be there on the doubleAs fast as I canDon't you know thatThere ain't no mountain high enoughAin't no valley low enoughAin't no river wide enoughTo keep me from getting to youDon't you know thatThere ain't no mountain high enoughAin't no valley low enoughAin't no river wide enough
Marvin Gaye
Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.
Taylor Swift
A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.
Thomas Moore
There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation -- the stoic approach. I think it's disgusting how they've been forgotten about in this way. It's the American hippies' fault, they saw an in there, a way of making money out of bad moods. That's all it is most of the time. You can't expect to feel cock-a-hoop every minute of every day. My mam and dad's generation understood this. They were just thankful the bombs had stopped threatening their lives. They just wanted to get on with living.
Mark E. Smith
Honestly, if you don't fit in then you're probably doing the right thing.
Lights Poxlietner
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon
I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
Shirley Manson
As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.
Lorde
You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.
Taylor Swift
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.
Stevie Nicks
All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.
John Legend
Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke. It means you believe in equality.
Kate Nash
My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.
Taylor Swift
You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.
Taylor Swift
I understand feminism to be a social savior because it liberates everyone without exclusion, whereas masculinism damns itself by measuring a man's health by the amount of sexual gratification he receives.
Morrissey
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
Loretta Lynn
I wish [that when] I was 12 years old I'd been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism — I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means.
Taylor Swift
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
Lorde
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.
Beth Ditto
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
Iggy Pop
I think when it comes to females in the media you’ll see something that kind of upsets me which is that females are pinned up against each other more so than men. You know, for example like you never see online “vote for who has the better butt - this actor or this actor.” It’s always like this female singer and this female singer. And you get to vote. I mean, it’s daily I see these things and these polls like “let us know who’s sexier, who’s the hotter momma” and I just don’t see it like “who’s the hotter dad” you know? I think that one thing that I do believe as a feminist is that in order for us to have gender equality we have to stop making it a girl fight and we have to stop being so interested in seeing girls trying to tear each other down, it has to be more about cheering each other on as women. That’s just kind of how I feel about it.
Taylor Swift
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan
Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.
Rich Mullins
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Michael Jackson
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Michael Jackson
I can get on with someone really, really, really well… and if they’re no good at having sex with me, it really upsets me, because I think, “oh God, this is someone I’d really like to spend the rest of my life with, but I cannot face having bad sex for the rest of my life.
Lily Allen
We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggeration and preoccupation then we have not found the heart of sex.
Thomas Moore
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.
Allan Sherman
I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real
Notorious B.I.G.
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
Ian Thomas Curtis
Is this the reality you wanted?
Jonghyun
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
Leonard Cohen
Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Adam Young
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.
John Lennon
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.
Cher Lloyd
I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.
Kurt Cobain
You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
Jewel
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one
Patti Smith
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Jon Bon Jovi
Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
Blake Lewis
I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.
Taylor Swift
We might be hollow, but we're brave
Lorde
If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they
Sting
You don't wait for your dreams to happen, you MAKE them happen.
Kendall Schmidt
No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off.
Logan Henderson
We'd do anything our our fans
Logan Henderson
If a girl thinks she isn't beautiful, I'm here to prove her wrong.
Kendall Schmidt
You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.
Logan Henderson
Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
Logan Henderson
Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.
Kendall Schmidt
Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.
Kendall Schmidt
It's what we think of ourselves that matter
Kendall Schmidt
Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime!
Kendall Schmidt
It's what we think of ourselves that matter!
Kendall Schmidt
I won't give up on us
Jason Mraz
We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin
Chris Martin