20th-century Songwriter Quotes

Love of my home, my wife and my children./ Love for the earth that helps me live./ Love for education and of work./ Love of others who work for the common good./ Love of justice as the instrument that provides equilibrium for human dignity./ Love of peace in order to enjoy one's life./ Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired at the expense of others' freedom, but rather the freedom of all./ Love of freedom to live and exist, for the existence of my children, in my home, in my town, my city, among neighbouring people./ Love for freedom in the environment in which we are required to forge our destiny./ Love of freedom without yokes: nor ours nor foreign.

There are all different shades of blues. There's all different shades of singer.

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

Kris Kristofferson

So if you've had enough
and are ready for your stand
I'll be waiting with
the stone that's in my hand.

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' 'bout half-past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head. "Hey, mister, can you tell where a man might find a bed?" He just grinned and shook my hand; "No" was all he said.

Robbie Robertson

Father, help your children and don't let them fall by the side of the road.

Hang all the mistletoe
I'm gonna get to know you better
This Christinas.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

So take a good look at my face.
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears.

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Mustang Sally, think you better slow your Mustang down. You been running all over town now, I'm a have to put your flat feet on the ground.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're acting lately makes me doubt.

America is a country with so much opportunity. After returning from a recent trip to West Africa, I gained a new perspective on what our country's colors mean to me. Even in our worst times, we have so much more and give so much. Everywhere I went people wanted to know how they could get to America. On my way home I realized that I now looked at our flag differently. I thought about those that fought so hard for our independence; to give us the right to pursue our dreams.

Katharine McPhee

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

John Michael Talbot

In the end we're just two brothers passing. Like your high yellow grandma back in the day only we're passing for black folks.

Stew (musician)

Reach for the top
And the sun is gonna shine
Every winter was a war she said
I want to get what's mine.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

I've got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand.

We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.

Well, that's all right, mama
That's all right for you
That's all right now, mama
Any way you do.

Lean on me when you're not strong.
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on.
For, it won't be long 'til
I'm gonna need somebody to lean on.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I'm not the average girl from your video,
And I ain't built like a supermodel
But I learned to love myself unconditionally,
Because I am a queen.