Quotes by Songwriters - Page 18

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.
Bruce Springsteen
I don't think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think it's a musician thing. That's why I write music. You know, I'm not like some messed up person. There is a lot of people that suffer depression that don't have an outlet, you know what I mean? That can't pick up a guitar for an hour and feel better.
Amy Winehouse
I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
Bruce Springsteen
It was a real party of swells.
Elvis Costello
I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps
George Harrison
All is full of love
Björk
Rock and Roll can never die.
Neil Young
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
Kendrick Lamar
After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write
Matty Healy
And the movement in your brainSends you out into the rain
Nick Drake
It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.
Patti Smith
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
Jimmy Page
You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
Dave Grohl
I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
Iggy Pop
I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.
Mark E. Smith
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
Pete Townshend
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.
Ray Charles
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Etta James
Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
Juliet Simms
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land,And how many strugles must that be?Before we choose to live the profits planEverybody sing- Every day create your History,Every path you take you're leaving your legacyEvery soldier dies in his gloryEvery legend tells of conquest and liberty.
Michael Jackson
All we shared was a mattress, and a lie, and an addressBaby I don't need you, well baby I don't need youOnce occupied by a goddess, now it's a room full of boxesShe said, "it's time to leave you" but baby I don't need you! In a perfect world... her face would not existIn a perfect world... a broken heart is fixed
Billy Talent
It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church...you should read the Scriptures.
Rich Mullins
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
Elvis Costello
There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
Jeff Buckley
I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,'... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.
Mariah Carey
Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.
Josh Groban
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.
Conway Twitty
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.
Björk
Only time will set you free, just like me
George Michael
A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
Colbie Caillat
Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
Pete Townshend
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
Aimee Mann
One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...
Bono
I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.
Jeff Buckley
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
Patti Smith
And I knowThe scariest part is letting goCause love is a ghost you can’t control
Christina Perri
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
Florence Welch
When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.
Blake Lewis
want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey.
Blake Lewis
Society, you're a crazy breed.
Eddie Vedder
But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
Nicki Minaj
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
Mariah Carey
Some girls are bigger than others.
Morrissey
Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell them not to fear no more.I'm not saying right is wrong,It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way.Cos' everything that's been has past,The answers in the looking glass.There's four and twenty million doorsOn life's endless corridor,So say it loud and sing it proud today.
Noel Gallagher
Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.
John Fogerty
Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.
Jack White
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Robert Plant
For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight.
Third Day
Why don't you find out for yourself?Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.
Morrissey
We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.
Lorde
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
Morrissey
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason Mraz
Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
George Strait
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder
Jesus take the wheel
Carrie Underwood
Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.
Toby Keith
Some need diamonds some need loveSome need cards some need luckSome need dollar bills lining their clothesall I need is, all I need is two white horses in a line
Beck
Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!
Morrissey
Because there's beauty in the breakdown.
Imogen Heap