Quotes by Songwriters - Page 3

You think I'm psycho, you think I'm goneTell the psychiatrist something is wrongOver the bend, entirely bonkersYou like me best when I'm off my rockerTell you a secret, I'm not alarmedSo what if I'm crazy? The best people are.
Melanie Martinez
Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.
Jason Mraz
How many rivers do we have to cross,Before we can talk to the boss?
Bob Marley
Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon....Nonagon!
They Might Be Giants
people change and promises are broken
Nick Jonas
Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history
Owl City
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
George Harrison
All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
Pete Townshend
It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
Leonard Cohen
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
Michael Jackson
Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
Layne Staley
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
Kurt Cobain
What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena)
Justin Bieber
A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.
Sofia Reyes
There is a crack in everything
Leonard Cohen
the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.
Taylor Swift
Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer
Taylor Swift
I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.
Chester Bennington
Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.
Ani DiFranco
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts," Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo!
Jennifer Rush
work hard. play hard. be kind.
Harry Styles
Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
Eminem
His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.
Pete Townshend
The way you treat me babyCheat and tell me liesI guess I shouldn't care at allBut still I sympathize'cause you got heart troubleComing onYeah you got heart trouble coming onWell you think that you don't need me babyBut you're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Martina Mcbride
The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.
Bono
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
E.Y. Harburg
Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
Paul Simon
A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.
Carrie Newcomer
For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated—a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way—that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.
Taylor Swift
I do what I want, when I feel like it ; now I'm not the same...
Avril Lavigne
In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone.
Patti Smith Just Kids
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
John Lennon
New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face, and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments,--constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.
James Weldon Johnson
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
Björk
You've got to lose to know how to win.
Steven Tyler
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.
Brad Paisley
Pay no attention to haters,attention is what they crave.
Cher Lloyd
Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.
John Lennon
The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever.
J. Cole
Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?tightrope - stone roses
Matt Squire
Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.
Bruce Springsteen
Then I heard your voice as clear as day, And you told me I should concentrate, It was all so strange, And so surreal, That a ghost should be so practical. Only if for a night And the only solution was to stand and fight, And my body was bruised and I was set alight, But you came over me like some holy rite, And although I was burning, You're the only light Only if for a night
Florence Welch
Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.
P!nk
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
Eric Church
You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?
Morrissey
But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.
Elvis Costello
There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.
Elvis Costello
You know you've done enoughWhen every bone is sore,You know you've prayed enoughWhen you don't ask any more,You know you're coming to some kind of understandingWhen every dream you've dreamed has passedAnd your still standing.
Patty Griffin
The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you
John Lennon
These spider webs are my home now
Beck
In the land of Gods and MonstersI was an AngelLiving in the garden of evilScrewed up, scared, doing anything that I neededShining like a fiery beaconYou got that medicine I needFame, Liquor, Love give it to me slowlyPut your hands on my waist, do it softlyMe and God, we don't get along so now I singNo one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lostIn the land of Gods and MonstersI was an AngelLooking to get fucked hardLike a groupie incognito posing as a real singerLife imitates artYou got that medicine I needDope, shoot it up, straight to the heart pleaseI don't really wanna know what's good for meGod's dead, I said 'baby that's alright with me'No one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lostWhen you talk it's like a movie and you're making meCrazy -Cause life imitates artIf I get a little prettier can I be your baby?You tell me, "life isn't that hard"No one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lost
Lana Del Rey
Why be a king,when you can be a god?
Eminem
You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the ground-Roar
Katy Perry
Heart beats fast Colors and promises How do be brave How can I love when I'm afraid To fall But watching you stand alone All of my doubt Suddenly goes away somehow One step closer I have died everyday waiting for you Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a Thousand years I'll love you for a Thousand more Time stands still Beauty in all she is I will be brave I will not let anything Take away What's standing in front of me Every breath, Every hour has come to this One step closer I have died everyday Waiting for you Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a Thousand years I'll. love you for a Thousand more
Christina Perri
I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible
Shontelle
You choke my throatWith words of wonderYou make it hard to breatheYour love's so coldJust like an arrowPierced through my skin I bleed
Charli XCX
It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)
Roland Orzabal
✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵
Halsey
I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.
Lorde