Songs Quotes
George Strait
I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.
2099George Strait
I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.
2613 Billie Holiday
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
4968 E.A. Bucchianeri
While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.
4667 Arctic Monkeys
The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.
4846 Taylor Swift
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine
1657 Lauren Myracle
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
4735 Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
4626 Sherwood Smith
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
3734 Owl City
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
2281 Emme Rollins
My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you…
1422 Nathan Reese Maher
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
2009 Rob Sheffield
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
3084 Martina Mcbride
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
2712 Nichole Nordeman
But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?
What if you jump?
And just close your eyes?
What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?
What if He's more than enough?
What if it's love?
4631 Matsushita Yuya
It isn't 'Too late now', shouldn't it be 'From now on'?
That is the password that will take away the regret.
1464 Cheryl Cory
It’s true - there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows.
2678 Raquelle Stepney
The shadow of a character is defined by its maker...while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence lights at the dims of its shadows
3680 Michael Bassey Johnson
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
2649 Roman Payne
With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.
2836 Nathan Reese Maher
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?
1183 Nathan Reese Maher
Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.
2647 Nathan Reese Maher
I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?
1163 Nathan Reese Maher
There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach
in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the
darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.
3297 Nathan Reese Maher
History doesn’t start with a tall building
and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking
us for suckers and is playing a mean game.
2642 Nathan Reese Maher
She leaves my side and heads deeper into
the apartment singing, “ - if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a
copper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.
1006 Nathan Reese Maher
That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right
mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.
People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you
should name it.
1797 Nathan Reese Maher
I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.
2518 Stephen R. Lawhead
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
3319 Susan Crandall
One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially when I was feeling particularly lonely.
1848 Nena
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by
2886 Darnell Lamont Walker
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
2068 Amit Kalantri
Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.
2853 Louise Erdrich
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
4758 James Jones
The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.
4410 Kaya Carvajal
Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.
1533 Bob Marley
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
4140 E.Y. Harburg
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
4680 Tori Amos
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
1346 Nick Hornby
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.
3531 Laura Adams Armer
He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.
4387 Colbie Caillat
A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
2255 Colson Whitehead
Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.
1641 Charles Frazier
Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380
1819 All Time Low
I earned my place,
With the tidal waves.
I can't escape this feeling,
That something ain't right.
I called my name
As I crashed the gates,
Still I can't escape this feeling
That something ain't right.
2608 Seekerohan
Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.
4519 Jasmine Warga
I don't like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.
2224 Roman Payne
No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.
4017 Marty Rubin
What good is a song that doesn't break your heart?
2164 Rob Liano
Your life is your song, sing it loud!
3558 Ransom Riggs
A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
3691 Bob Dylan
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
3655 Bob Dylan
..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.
1691 L. Frank Baum
It's the latest popular song," declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice.
"A popular song?"
"Yes. One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing. That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs.
2211 Lori Majewski
We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
1695 Leila Sales
I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too late for me to skip to the next song. Like, maybe when you're dying, you actually want to hear something really upbeat.
4368 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
3182 Neil Gaiman
Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams are gone. That's the power of songs.
1860 Kendrick Lamar
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
4081 Aaron Copland
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
1605 Ocean
Start with your heart, and only good can follow!
4634 Tom Waits
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.
3788 Elizabeth Eulberg
I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.
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