Song Quotes

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I ...

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have...

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out o...

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing alwa...

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't fo...

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can...

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We...

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the...

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enj...

You're a song written by the hands of God.

There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft ...

A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in...

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for...

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...

Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered three. Strange things...

Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your tr...

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and ...

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I op...

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in...

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ce...

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Displaced Person’s SongIf you see a train this evening,Far away, against the sky,Lie down in your wo...

Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or per...

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and p...

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women...

...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive o...

Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my...

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innova...

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sus...

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to...

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is reall...

For I am you and you are I.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction t...

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmosph...

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place...

And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you ...

It all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe planet goes around the sunIt all goes aroundMy mother said i...

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and onl...

reality has too many heads

How many rivers do we have to cross,Before we can talk to the boss?

In high seas or in low seas,I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in l...

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap ...

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a who...

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come...

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

Poets sing our human music for us.

The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived...

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...

Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying.

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole lif...

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that ...

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band...

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled wit...

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

Now I'm a warriorNow i've got thicker skinI'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever beenAnd my amorI...

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and...

The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sop...

God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the c...

And I'm not saying it's a bad song, you know, or anything like that. All I'm saying is that if you g...

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever...

The worst things in life come free to us

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has sl...

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for...

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumpi...

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 am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...