American Songwriter Quotes

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.

I thank the Lord for the night time To forget the day.

You may leave here for four days in space But when you return it's the same old place.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

Young Ones.
Darling we're the Young Ones.
Young Ones shouldn't be afraid
To live, love, there's a song to be sung,
Cause we may not
Be the Young Ones
very long.

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.

Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going "This shit's happening on the streets." Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less "valid" than Compton?

I always went in for that Wagnerian approach to rock and roll.

I'm not a woman
I'm not a man
I am something that you'll never understand.

Prince (musician)

You know, [his voice trembling, hoarse, no more than a whisper] I always thought I'd go first. a

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

This kind of day
Has no night
Ain't got much on my mind
Ain't got much on my mind 'Cause I know
Something good this way comes.

I'm a fifth-generation Texan. My mother was divorced when I was a toddler and I had a remarkable support system of brilliant aunts and uncles.

Michael Nesmith

See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing--
Keep a-goin'!

Frank L. Stanton

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.

He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.

Waylon Jennings

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

That's the sound of the men workin' on the chain gang.

She said
"I'm young enough
I'm old enough
In the city machine
Where industries
Fill the fish full of mercury"

I got the key to the highway
I'm billed out and bound to go
I'm gonna leave here running,
Because walking is most too slow.

Big Bill Broonzy

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

Richard M. Sherman

You have to blow off your family. You have to blow off comfort. You have to blow off money.... You have to blow off your ego. You have to blow off everything except your guitar.

Townes Van Zandt

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

I looked down the bar at the bartender He said, "Now what do you want, Johnny?" "One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer"

I can feel a something pounding in my brain
Just any time that someone speaks your name
Trumpets sound and I hear thunder boom
Every time that you walk in the room.

Jackie DeShannon