Quotes by Songwriters - Page 2

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

Shania Twain

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Thomas Moore

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

Morrissey

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

Bruce Springsteen

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Morrissey

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life – and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Taylor Swift

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

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!

Eminem

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.

Michael Jackson

I should move away from his touch. But he’s a constant storm in my life, clouding my head, ensuring I make bad decisions. He doesn’t do it on purpose, he knows we’re not good for each other, but there’s something about us that makes us fight back harder, thinking we can overcome it.

Brittany Butler

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

Lana Del Rey

When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.What am I?

Avi

I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. I believe in life, which one day each of us shall lose. When we are young we think we won’t, that we are different. As a child I thought I would never grow up, that I could will it so. And then I realized, quite recently, that I had crossed some line, unconsciously cloaked in the truth of my chronology. How did we get so damn old? I say to my joints, my iron-colored hair. Now I am older than my love, my departed friends. Perhaps I will live so long that the New York Public Library will be obliged to hand over the walking stick of Virginia Woolf. I would cherish it for her, and the stones in her pocket. But I would also keep on living, refusing to surrender my pen.

Patti Smith

When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!

Morrissey

I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

Niall Horan

God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don’t let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful.

Eminem

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

Johnny Cash

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?

k.d. lang

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

Ani DiFranco

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

Nick Drake

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingFrom glen to glen, and down the mountain sideThe summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.But come ye back when summer's in the meadowOr when the valley's hushed and white with snow'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadowOh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.And if you come, when all the flowers are dyingAnd I am dead, as dead I well may beYou'll come and find the place where I am lyingAnd kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above meAnd all my dreams will warm and sweeter beIf you'll not fail to tell me that you love meI'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

Fred E. Weatherly

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Jeff Buckley

Now here you go againYou say you want your freedomWell who am I to keep you downIt's only right that you shouldPlay the way you feel itBut listen carefully to the soundOf your lonelinessLike a heartbeat ... drives you madIn the stillness of remembering what you hadAnd what you lo

Stevie Nicks

You are not alone if you are lonely,When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

Matt Maher

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

Jon Bon Jovi

(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.

Noel Gallagher

Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

P!nk

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Paul McCartney

I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

work hard. play hard. be kind.

Harry Styles

I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Taylor Swift

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

Jeremy Camp

She's young and the world's wide open.

Jason Aldean

human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

Hayley Williams

You don't wait for your dreams to happen, you MAKE them happen.

Kendall Schmidt

I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.

Jason Gray

You took my heart and you held it in your mouthAnd, with a word all my love came rushing outAnd, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single wordThere is a hollow in me now...And Every whisper, every sighEats away at this heart of mineAnd there is a hollow in me now.So I put my faith in something unknownI'm living on such sweet nothingBut I'm trying to hope with nothing to holdI'm living on such sweet nothing.

Florence Welch

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

Taylor Swift

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Taylor Swift

O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?

James Weldon Johnson

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

Don Williams

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

Warren Zevon

I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me an identity and I gave them my tears, my heart, and my truth.

Carole Bayer Sager

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

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

Lou Reed

Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light

Will.i.am

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

Pete Doherty

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

TobyMac

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Kurt Cobain

He sang “I wish I weren’t me” over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the boy dropped into a depression. Not a cool dark room and cigarette depression like the songs he loved, but one that felt like he was being smothered by a safe, suburban, monotonous blanket. Everything felt like a headache to the boy. Every face, every stupid stuttered sentence all wrapped up into the biggest headache ever. So the boy took an aspirin. And another and another and then went to sleep, lullabyed by hopes he would never wake up to.

Pete Wentz

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

Angie Stone

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,And tell me when it rains,And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins...'Cause your heart has a lack of color,And we should've known That we'd grow up sooner or later,'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3

Owl City

I am," I saidTo no one thereAn no one heard at allNot even the chair"I am," I cried"I am," said IAnd I am lost, and I can't even say whyLeavin' me lonely still

Neil Diamond

There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in the room.

Bruce Springsteen

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

Björk

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

Pete Wentz

Strict TimeThere's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist 'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist Strict timeChorus: Toughen up, toughen up Keep your lip buttoned up Strict timeOh the muscles flex and the fingers curl And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl Strict time Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial The courting cold wars weekend witch trial Strict time All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time Strict timeYou talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones Try to look Italian through the musical Valium Strict time Thinking of grand larceny Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity Cute assistants staying alive More like a hand job than the hand jive Strict time

Elvis Costello

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