Ragtime was my lullaby.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,…

— Sarah Dessen

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody…

— Chaka Khan

In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack…

— Heather O'Neill

A lullaby is all you can remember me by kissing your lips was my last touching your hand was the beating of my heart…

— Courtney Hood

My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the…

— John Berger

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids'…

— Lou Barlow

“I'm saying it's totally oblivious to how people feel. Take the ocean, for instance. You can love it, but it doesn't love you back.…

— D. Anne Love

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

— Robert Breault

“Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which…

— Akshay Vasu

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be…

— Nellie McKay

I miss you more than you can ever imagine. What I'd do to melt in your arms and fall asleep to the lullaby of…

— Anonymous

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent…

— Masiela Lusha

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

— Linda Ronstadt

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

— Tom Waits