Songwriter Quotes

Bob Dylan

Lady Gaga

Freddie Mercury

Leonard Cohen

Corbin Bleu

Jimi Hendrix

Johnny Cash

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

I try to place [beautiful imagery] next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.

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.

I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

Freddie Mercury

Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile
You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile

Gordon Lightfoot

The love, the echoes of long ago
you needed the world to know
They are in Xanadu
The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

Take it back
Oh, take it back
I don't want your lovin', anymore
Let me live
Oh, let me live
It's not you who I sing for

Zooey Deschanel

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

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

[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

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

Is the cabin still left standing? Has the rich man need of all?
Is the children's birthplace taken now within the new park wall?

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

The loss of America what can repay?
New colonies seek for at Botany Bay.

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

My demons talk to me in profanity. They think I'm a jerk. A bum. And an asshole. I just say they're a jerk, they're a bum, they're an asshole. They're no good. They better leave me alone and get off my case.

Had another dream about the lions at the door
They were not half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Walls, windows, trees, waves coming through
You be in me I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley were the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me, and I'm
Wondering where the lions are and I'm
Wondering where the lions are...

You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality.

It first was a rumour dismissed as a lie
but then came the evidence none could deny:
a double page spread in the Sunday Express —
The Russians are running the DHSS!

Attila the Stockbroker