20th-century Songwriter Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

John Michael Talbot

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

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

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

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)

No matter how hard you try
You can't stop me now.

Norman Whitfield

I hope no one thinks we really sniff glue. I stopped when I was eight.

I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of country music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.

He'd have to get under, get out and get under
And fix up his automobile.

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.