Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Psalm 18 [David] sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with… — John Musker Copy Share Image
If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry,… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it.… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
“The song reminds me of my life lately and the way things that happen devastate you so badly but then turn around… — Love Maia Copy Share Image
“So near the track of the stars are we, That oft, on night's pale beams, The distant sounds of their harmony Come… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
I can write a song and a thousand people could hear it and there will be countless different reasons why those people… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
“This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Can we wait just a minute Turn that TV off for a minute Now politics and talkin shit aint really none of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it.… — Joel Houston Copy Share Image
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be… — Phil Keaggy Copy Share Image
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“A queer, calm rage settled over her lined face, and she lifted her chin. “I have worked for ten years to become… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I've never done a video where I feel like the images have anything to do with my song, except in the most… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
![“I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very…” quote by Lizzy Plapinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/173/lizzy-plapinger-32589_bizarre_i-ve-got-pages-and-pages-of-snippets-of_2347106.jpg)
![“Psalm 18 [David] sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: 1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my…” quote by Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5a2/beth-moore-212_song_psalm-18-david-sang-to-the-lord-the-word_2468135.jpg)
![“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs…” quote by Theresa Wayman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d6/theresa-wayman-30913_albums_i-think-the-most-note-worthy-part-is-tha_2842381.jpg)
![“I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way…” quote by Fiona Apple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34d/fiona-apple-1912_easy_i-really-really-enjoy-fitting-words-toge_565894.jpg)
