Quotes by Songwriters - Page 26

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
Emily Saliers
Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
Jeff Buckley
This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?
David Ford
Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Wiz Khalifa
The best fiction is true.
Kinky Friedman
I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill
When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.
Jeff Buckley
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.
Patti Smith
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you alive and alert! Believe you are the baddest ass in town – and [that] you suck! It keeps you honest. Be able to keep two completely contradictory ideas alive and well inside of your heart and head at all times. If it doesn’t drive you crazy, it will make you strong. And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have – and then remember it’s only rock’ n’ roll.
Bruce Springsteen
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
Chuck Barris
Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.
Matthew Good
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
Morrissey
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt Cobain
when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
Mariah Carey
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Michael Jackson
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
R. Kelly
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
Lauryn Hill
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.
Leonard Cohen
Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.
George Harrison
It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.It only hurts because it's true.
Morrissey
To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
Morrissey
I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.
Morrissey
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
Morrissey
Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!
Taylor Swift
I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..
Taylor Swift
Falling in love is painful on the knees.
Jon Bon Jovi
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
Morrissey
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva
Josh Groban
Pranks vs school= pranks win all day
Justin Bieber
I am human and I need to be loved,just like everybody else does.
Morrissey
Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.
Niall Horan
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
Pete Wentz
You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.
Morrissey
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
Bruce Springsteen
I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
Morrissey
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm
Morrissey
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Kurt Cobain
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Pat Monahan
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
Jackson Browne
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
India.Arie
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Stevie Wonder
I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
Courtney Love
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.
Stevie Nicks
Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.
Lil Wayne
I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive.
Nicki Minaj
Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob Marley
Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
Sheryl Crow
Now don't you understand man universal lawWhat you throw out comes back to you, starNever underestimate those who you scarCause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard
Lauryn Hill
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
Pete Wentz
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
R. Kelly
You're not aloneTogether we standI'll be by your side, you know I'll take your handWhen it gets coldAnd it feels like the endThere's no place to goYou know I won't give in
Avril Lavigne
Don't forget your history nor your destiny
Bob Marley
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Patti Smith
No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.
Josh Groban
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
Taylor Swift
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Adam Young
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
Michael Jackson
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
Patti Smith
I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray
Justin Bieber