American Songwriter Quotes

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

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

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

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

Prince (musician)

It's still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory,
A case of do or die!
The world will always welcome lovers,
As time goes by.

Hitler was a good man and it takes some f—-ing balls for someone to say this out loud this day and age, especially for a public figure like myself, but you know what? SOMEONE NEEDS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR! Otherwise the dark cabal who currently control the world and all of the world bankers will continue to feed you their lies, feed off your emotions, take advantage of your emotions and will continue to keep you THEIR SLAVE!

Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.

Sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Say brother, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?

My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.

If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.

Jerry Lee Lewis

We won't have a thing
So we've got nothing to lose…

That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground"—which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff— back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

Everybody told me you can't get far
On thirty-seven dollars and a Jap guitar.

Stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.

Navy housing is like tract homes. … All the houses look the same. Everybody's pop was the same rank. There's a lot of negative to the military — like, most of it. But one good thing was I lived with all kinds of people, as far as ethnic background or whatever. Because the navy was integrated. That was kind of neat. And with everybody's pop being chiefs, you could see that no one was above or below anyone else. You know how neighborhoods get all caught up in different things? Well, in the military you're not like that. You're all together. So I will say that was one positive thing that came out of it.

And after it rains
There's a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
Its not that the colors aren't there
It's just imagination they lack.

Simon & Garfunkel

Eight miles high,
And when you touch down
You'll find that
It's stranger than known.

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

Everybody's got a little light under the sun.

It's mighty strange without a doubt, nobody knows you when you're down and out.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

Joseph Brackett

A smart man isn't necessarily one who knows all the answers, but knows where to find them.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.