English Songwriter Quotes

Amy Winehouse

Eric Clapton

Elton John

Phil Collins

Roger Waters

Peter Gabriel

Ozzy Osbourne

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road, through Jordanian deserts, Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me. My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

It's extraordinary what that song has been used for — I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.

The times will not mend
Till the King enjoys his own again.

Yes, I weeping, a teardrop attack
I give emotion at the drop of a hat
When I remember days at school
I remember many things, but
Most of all, I remember the sun

It's so hard to understand why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam.

I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

I see myself as a bisexual man who has never had a homosexual experience.

When on a long weekend away without the internet on your phone, you realize what's truly important in life. The internet on your phone.

It is amorphous, but basically it always has the same job, which is to get you through the day. And that seems to me to be a profoundly important job; it is like fresh bread.

I see the Time and Motion clock,
Is sayin' nearly noon,
I 'spec me squirt of water,
Will come flyin' at me soon,
And then me spray of pellets,
Will nearly break me leg,
And I'll bite the wire nettin'
And lay one more bloody egg.

Is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? Or just 20,000 people standing in a field. And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is. But that's okay 'cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.

As a boy, I had sighed over the mysteries of multiplication; addition had added materially to my distress, and subtraction taken away much of my repose.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea

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

I wanna love you
I wanna be a better man
I don't wanna hurt you
I just wanna see what's in your hand.

We'll be raising our hands
Shining up to the sky
Cause we've got the fire fire fire
And we gonna let it burn

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Adelaide Anne Procter

And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day...

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

Oh, Sussex, Sussex by the sea!
Good old Sussex by the Sea!
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea!

William Ward-Higgs

Cuz I have so much love, for you, do with it what you will; and I have nothing more to prove, do with it what you will, say it again; say it again.

Natasha Bedingfield

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

Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

Richard Ashcroft