Quotes by Songwriters - Page 2

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.
Frank Hamilton
If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.
Billie Holiday
And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
The flag of our Union forever!
George P. Morris
Yes we'll rally round the flag boys we'll rally once again Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom We will rally from the hillside we'll gather from the plain Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
George F. Root
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
I am he As you are me And we are all together.
John Lennon
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
Joan Osborne
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Boy George
O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay
For mem'ry has painted this perfect day. With colors that never fade And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.
Harry Ruby
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
Leonard Cohen
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith
To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Roberta Flack
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Carlos Santana
I wish that without me your heart would break, i wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake, I wish that without me you couldn't eat, I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep
Kate Nash
When I say nothing, I say everything
Jack White
-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.
Patti Smith
There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
Edie brickell
Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!
Avi
In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
Patti Smith
A man cannot understand hunger, until he has swum in the depths of hunger
David Rea
I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
Kurt Cobain
If they don`t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more
Taylor Swift
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
Eminem
The worst crime is faking it
Kurt Cobain
It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.
Robert Priest
Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.
George Harrison
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
George Harrison
Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.
Avi
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Serge Gainsbourg
There ain't half been some clever bastards
Ian Dury
Our culture reasons that because we fell there is not enough time, we should increase our pace, multitask, and fit more into our already overbooked days. But even though it is counterintuitive to popular wisdom, perhaps the more effective response to the limits of time is to live more fully in the moment, to savor it and expand it.
Carrie Newcomer
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
Sara Bareilles
Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out
Sara Bareilles
And now, the end is near,And so I face the final curtain.My friend, I'll say it clear,I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.I've lived a life that's full.I've traveled each and every highway;And more, much more than this,I did it my way.
Jacques Revaux
I rub my hand down my face, frustrated. This girl in front of me tests my patience like hell. When she ran to me after her dad kicked her out, I thought she still had feelings for me. She needed a place to stay, and I needed her. I offered her a room, thinking if she was around me every day, she would remember she loves me. I was dead wrong. Somewhere along the way, we switched roles, I became the one who so desperately needed her and she became cold and closed off. She isn’t my savior; she’s my punishment.
Brittany Butler
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.
Charles Mackay
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
Eminem
On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open
Bono
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
Kendrick Lamar
Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Mark Knopfler
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
Katy Perry
In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was completefrom TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses
Matt Squire
Nothing safe is worth the drive.
Taylor Swift
I got the Eye of the Tiger The FireDancing through the fire Cause I am a Champion!And your gonna hear me Roar-Roar
Katy Perry
And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,whether or not you ever show up?
Ani DiFranco