Quotes by Songwriters - Page 9

You should gofrom place to placerecovering the poemsthat have been written for youto which you can affix your signature.Don't discuss these matterswith anyone.Retrieve. Retrieve.When the basket is fullsomeone will appearto whom you can present it.
Leonard Cohen
No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.
Rod McKuen
What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
Roger Waters
William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He’d appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway.
Patti Smith
I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse
Courtney Love
There's nothing gay about living life straight
Paul B. Tripp
It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.
Sam Smith
red rain is coming downred rain is pouring downred rain is coming down all over meI'm bathing in itred rain coming downred rain is coming downred rain is coming down all over meI'm begging youred rain coming downred rain coming downred rain coming downred rain coming downover me in the red red seaover meover mered rain
Peter Gabriel
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.
Thomas Moore
I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
Eminem
Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.
Taylor Swift
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
Leonard Cohen
Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down
Tom Petty
I won't regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be.
Kate Nash
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
Édith Piaf
My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret
Leonard Cohen
When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.
Taylor Swift
You are not alone if you are lonely,When you feel afraid, you're not the only.
Matt Maher
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
Pete Townshend
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
Bono
I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind and loving and gentle and soft.
Justin Bieber
Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.
Justin Bieber
As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons and sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.
Taylor Swift
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
Jack Bruce
Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant south,The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Abel Meeropol
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.
Michael Jackson
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
Avril Lavigne
I only come here seeking knowledge
Sting Police
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.
Sinead O'Connor
I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.
Patti Smith
Give up your heart and you lose your wayTrusting another to feel that way.Give up your heart and you find yourself living for something in somebody else.Sometimes you wonder what happens to love.Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough.
Jackson Browne
Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.
Stevie Wonder
We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.
Eminem
Tonight Must Last Us Forever
Paul Stanley
Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in our expressiveness - an exact antipode to the virtues of the soul. It is no wonder, then, that in an age of telecommunications - which, by the way, literally means "distant connections" - we suffer symptoms of the loss of soul. We are being urged from every side to become efficient rather than intimate.
Thomas Moore
Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.
Bono
We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.
Rich Mullins
I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.
Jeremy Camp
Worried moonI'm afraid of what's to comeWorried moonYeah, tell me what you knowWorried moonYou see further down the roadWorried moon
Chris Cornell
The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.
Pete Wentz
It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
Bono
Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.
Pete Townshend
We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...
John Lennon
A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.
Taylor Swift
We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.
Lorde
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!
Kenny Chesney
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
John Lennon
I will find my wayI can go the distanceI'll be there somedayIf I can be strongI know every mile will be worth my whileI would go most anywhere to feel like I belong
Alan Menken
True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.
Joel Balin
We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat.
Joel Balin
She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.
Jeremy Camp
Grace is the music that happens inside of you when you hear the music.
Jason Gray
Beauty salons, like churches, are places where people tend to unburden themselves and bare their souls.
Sarah Weeks
Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
Sara Barellies Brave
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
Nicky Wire
Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.
George Harrison
Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
John Mayer
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
Ace Frehley
I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
Jason Gray