Quotes by Songwriters - Page 19

Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
Butch Walker
To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.
Blake Lewis
We hate it when our friends become successful.
Morrissey
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
Jewel
Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe
George Michael
all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbyedawn is braking its early mornthe taxi waiting he blowing his hornalready i am so lonesome i could dieso kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me gocause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.
John Denver
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.
Taylor Swift
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.
Kurt Cobain
You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It's the morning of your very first day. You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in a while, try and stay out of everybody's way. It's your freshman year and your gonna be here for the next four years in this town. Hopin' one of those senior boys will wink at you and say, "You know I haven't seen you around before." 'Cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen, feelin' like there's nothin' to figure out, but, count to ten, take it in. This is life before you know who you're gonna be. Fifteen.
Taylor Swift
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.
Patti Smith
Sweet Grace amazes meThe way that she can seeBeyond the man I amTo the man that I could beShe's bringing out my bestWhile she covers all the restSome say her love is blindBut I say her love forgetsShe don't like it when I try so hard to impress her‘Cause when I do that, it's a lie that makes her love look the lesserThe truth is I knowI'll never be, I'll never be good enoughI'll never deserve her loveI'll never be, I'll never be good enough for GraceBut she takes me anywayI am the cheatin' kind But she's changing my mindThe way she takes me backThough I fail her every timeShe's got friends who tell her that sheIs much too good for meWell, I've told her that myselfBut she refuses to leaveI'd like to think my strength won her affectionBut the truth is it was my weakness that caught her attentionI'm grateful to knowWhen my tears fall down like rainShe wipes them from my faceShe tells me that I'm lovelyAnd if I am, it's all because of GraceThis love turns my inside outAnd my world upside downGrace is changing me
Jason Gray
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
Eddie Vedder
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Eminem
Life is a pigsty.
Morrissey
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Johnny Cash
Easy come, easy go,That's just how you live, oh,Take, take, take it all,But you never give.Should've known you was troubleFrom the first kiss,Had your eyes wide open.Why were they open?Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash,You tossed it in the trash, you did.To give me all your love is all I ever asked, 'causeWhat you don't understand isI'd catch a grenade for yaThrow my hand on a blade for yaI'd jump in front of a train for ya You know I'd do anything for yaOh, oh, I would go through all of this pain,Take a bullet straight through my brain!Yes, I would die for ya, baby,But you won't do the same.
Bruno Mars
They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
Morrissey
Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends
Morrissey
Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?
Morrissey
Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tensionAnd not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.
Hayley Williams
Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies
Steven Tyler
When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!
Morrissey
I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now.
Morrissey
Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,he never quite goes this low.
Morrissey
Talk about a dream,try to make it real
Bruce Springsteen
Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.
Morrissey
You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.
Morrissey
You’ve got that smile,That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday,That you keep that smile.Yeah, you are my dream,There’s not a thing I won’t do.I'd give my life up for you,'Cause you are my dream.
Justin Bieber
There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die.
Morrissey
I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.
Morrissey
The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.
Elvis Costello
We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
Roger Waters
You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
Jason Mraz
Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.Yeah, I know there are more important things.But don't forget to remember me.
Carrie Underwood
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Morrissey
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
Roger Waters
These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love.
Morrissey
I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.
Paul Simon
You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.
Morrissey
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
Morrissey
Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life
Morrissey
Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.
Morrissey
Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
Morrissey
You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin
Rodney Crowell
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.
Eric Clapton
The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
Eddie Van Halen
You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
Morrissey
It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
Neil Young
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
Morrissey
I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
Morrissey
If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
Mark E. Smith
Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.
Jack White
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
Jason Mraz
Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back
Kenny Chesney
I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
Morrissey
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
Morrissey
It's so shameful of me: I like you.
Morrissey
Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.
Morrissey