Songwriter Quotes

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

So dance dance dance
Teach us to be true
Come dance dance dance
'Cause we love you

I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to see
I won't be much when you've got through with me
Well I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty pale
Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail.

Father, help your children and don't let them fall by the side of the road.

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.

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

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.

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world.

George David Weiss

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

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

Prince (musician)

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

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hang all the mistletoe
I'm gonna get to know you better
This Christinas.

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' 'bout half-past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head. "Hey, mister, can you tell where a man might find a bed?" He just grinned and shook my hand; "No" was all he said.

Robbie Robertson

As long as I'm footin' the bills
I'm paying the cost to be the boss.

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.

So take a good look at my face.
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears.

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.

Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going "This shit's happening on the streets." Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less "valid" than Compton?

We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea

The family on the other side of town,
Would catch hell without a ghetto around.
In every city you find the same thing going down,
Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

Sitting by my window, baby
I was looking out at the rain.
You know something struck me, honey
Clamped onto me
Like a ball and chain.

Big Mama Thornton

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

Marion Sinclair

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.