Songwriter Quotes

I was tired of the bullying. I was tired of being pushed down so that I couldn't say my beliefs. And being fearful of losing sales. Losing fans. Losing bookings. Losing contracts and sponsorship. You know, that's my day to day. And a lot of my friends have the same thing. And we live in Hollywood, which is supposed to be the most open viewpoint city. But the truth is there was a lot of hate and a lot of negativity and I wanted to change the storyline to love and support and unity as an American.

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

Kris Kristofferson

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

First they hurt me then desert me,
I'm left alone, all alone
There's no house that I can call my home.

His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me.

Civilla D. Martin

There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

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

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

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher leave them kids alone Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

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.

Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, nowhere to go I wanna be sedated

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.

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else,
How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.

Alanis Morissette

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.

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 can not draw or paint worth a damn, because I can't see it in my head before I do it. I can sculpt and I do crafts but I can not draw. When it comes to music I can hear it before it happens, which most people can't do.

Blackie Lawless

I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

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.

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

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

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