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.

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

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

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

No matter what they say the time has come
I'm ready now to start a new beginning
With all our hopes and all our dreams
And I know the stars will shine for you and for me
From the moment you believe.

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.

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

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

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

I never did feel like a star. I was always uptight about something and uncomfortable and not very good. I felt weighed down by it, the pressure. It's terrible I should have enjoyed it but I didn't; I was thinking about what we should do all the time, I wasn't able to run with it.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

The Devil made me do it the first time -
the second time I done it on my own

Billy Joe Shaver

I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

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

Everything is everything
What is meant to be will be.
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually.

I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.

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

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

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

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

Richard Ashcroft

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...

We never expected anything, actually. I think we still don't expect anything. We were proud of the album when we finished it, so whatever success it has we are just like, 'Wow, cool.' It's not going to change the way we work or think. I'm as proud of this record now as I was when we finished it.

What made a big difference was the open door policy we had. Anyone who wanted to come backstage could, and it was never a problem. I don't know whether other bands did that. It was good for us to meet people who had come to see the group and converse with them, ask them 'What's it like in your town? What, there are no clubs here? So what do you do?' It was about sharing information and it was good to know what was going on out there, and how people were dealing with their lives. And that spread right across the world.