Songwriter Quotes

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

Shopping bugs me, for metaphorical reasons I'm sure, because in life as in shopping, you go in looking for one thing. There's one thing you really need, right? But then there's Blue Light Specials, you know, and you just get confused, you get distracted, that's all. It's human. You wind up with this armload of shiny junk. You know, and then you're checking out—I mean, checking out—and suddenly you remember, Huh… there was that one thing I came in for. Oh no, I forgot—I just have this junk—oh no! Too late, you're in the express line!

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

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

Her beauty was sold
For an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.

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

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

"Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the Jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!"
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Henry Clay Work

My personal taste in music runs toward alternative rock. It's not my genre to parody. Rap songs make great parodies because there are lots of words to play with. There's no part of pop culture that doesn't deserve to be taken down a couple of pegs.

"Weird Al" Yankovic

One needs to take one's time because good work takes time. But it must be worth the wait in the end.

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.

I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

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.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

Joseph Brackett

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

Billy Joe Shaver

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

Richard M. Sherman

Hitler was a good man and it takes some f—-ing balls for someone to say this out loud this day and age, especially for a public figure like myself, but you know what? SOMEONE NEEDS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR! Otherwise the dark cabal who currently control the world and all of the world bankers will continue to feed you their lies, feed off your emotions, take advantage of your emotions and will continue to keep you THEIR SLAVE!

I love Albuquerque. I've always loved it, and i just couldn't leave it. I don't know if it sounds right, but I think people love that, I'm not going to turn my back on them. I want to be here.

There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe.

Ashford & Simpson

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

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.

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

Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything – the last resort of someone who doesn't really want to change the world... Dylan's songs accept the world as it is.

See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing--
Keep a-goin'!

Frank L. Stanton