Quotes by Songwriters - Page 20

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.
Morrissey
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
Morrissey
The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Michael Jackson
What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide
Kenny Chesney
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly
George Harrison
The heart has a heart of its own.
Morrissey
I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.
Morrissey
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
Morrissey
If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.
Pete Doherty
The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.
Morrissey
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
Morrissey
Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. 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
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.
Taylor Swift
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
Morrissey
I'd love to...but only with you.
Morrissey
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
Bruce Springsteen
How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
Morrissey
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.
Paul McCartney
You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud."Avril Lavigne (Runaway)
Avril Lavigne
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands
Ani DiFranco
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
Pete Wentz
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Eric Clapton
Give me love like her'Cause lately I've been waking up alonePaint splattered teardrops on my shirtTold you I'd let you goAnd that I'll fight my cornerMaybe tonight I'll call youAfter my blood turns into alcoholNo I just wanna hold youGive a little time to me or burn this outWe'll play hide and seek to turn this aroundAll I want is the taste that your lips allowMy, my, my, my oh give me love
Ed Sheeran
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
Christina Perri
I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with vision of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three year down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not very popular one, who once has dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didn’t mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living- they asked me why. But there’s no use in talking to people who have a home, they have no idea what its like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lied you head.I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me that I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing me due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiviness that was as wide as wavering as the ocean. And if I said that I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying- because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one- who belonged to everyone, who had nothing- who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obssesion for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about- and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.LIVE FAST. DIE YOUNG. BE WILD. AND HAVE FUN.I believe in the country America used to be. I belive in the person I want to become, I believe in the freedom of the open road. And my motto is the same as ever- *I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself- I Ride. I Just Ride.*Who are you? Are you in touch with all your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you’re free to experience them?I Have.I Am Fucking Crazy. But I Am Free.
Lana Del Rey
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
Ani DiFranco
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
E.Y. Harburg
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Michael Jackson
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Bono
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult – we were faced with more challenges. I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it. When he walked in every woman’s head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him. He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn’t contain himself. I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him. And in that way, I understood him and I loved him.I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.And I still love him. I love him.
Lana Del Rey
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it
John Lennon
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
Taylor Swift
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.
Taylor Swift
Who are you to judge the life i livei know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.but before you start pointing fingersmake sure your hands are clean.
Jimi Hendrix
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
People haven't always been there for me but music always has.
Taylor Swift
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
Taylor Swift
They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.
Bill Callahan
There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Dave Grohl
My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.
Jeff Beck
I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.
Patti Smith
Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.
Jewel
I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.
Jewel
Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead
Adele Adkins
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
John Lennon
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
Bono
There's a man who is my brother,I just don't know his name,But I know his home and family,Because I know we feel the same,And it hurts me when he's hungry,Or when his children cry,I too am a father,That little one is mineIt's about time we begin it,To turn the world around,It's about time we start to make it,The dream we've always known,It's about time we start to live it,The family of man,It's about time, It's about changes, And it's about time,It's about you and me together,And it's about time
John Denver
We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.
Josh Thompson
Peace is a conscious choice.
John Denver
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
John Lennon
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
Jeff Buckley
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive me hopeHelp me cope, with this heavy loadTrying to, touch and reach you with,heart and soul
George Harrison
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
George Harrison
I used to think that the world was doing something to me, that the world owed me something. And that either the conservatives or the socialists or the fascists or the communists or the Christians or the Jews or the fascists were doing something to me. And when you're a teeny-booper, that's what you think. I'm 40 now, I don't think that anymore—because I found out it doesn't fucking work. I am part of them. There's no separation. Were all one. "Give peace a chance," not "Shoot people for peace." "All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
John Lennon