Song Quotes

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

We had to google the lyrics to our own song

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.