Quotes On Life Lyrics

#1. There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

Morrissey

#2. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

George Watsky

#3. I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

Brett Dennen

#4. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

Jimi Westbrook

#5. Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load.

Joe Brooks

#6. I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.

Jane Siberry

#7. Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Bob Dylan

#8. Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

Cheyenne Jackson

#9. Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

Morrissey

#10. I'd rather live one day as a lion
than live a hundred years as a sheep
I'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
live my dream out in reality and not in my dreams

Lukas Graham

#11. Drink up my honey eyes,
Kiss them shut every night,
And be my 'one' all my life.

Crystal Woods

#12. Life makes love look hard.

Taylor Swift

#13. One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

Bono

#14. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

#15. You made me feel less alone;
you made me feel not quite so
deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

Morrissey

#16. I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

Morrissey

#17. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

#18. You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.

Jonathan Tropper

#19. I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.
And I just can't explain ... so I won't even try to.

Morrissey

#20. I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Jon Foreman

#21. Why don't you find out for yourself?
Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.

Morrissey

#22. Written up in marker on a factory sign:
I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine

Coldplay

#23. Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Mick Jagger

#24. The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!

Keith Green

#25. Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Buddy Guy

#26. I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

Rachel Platten

#27. Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

Morrissey

#28. All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.

Blind Melon

#29. Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

Morrissey

#30. One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me ... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Taylor Swift

#31. I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

Ziggy Marley

#32. So if you have today you should say all that you have to say

Kellin Quinn

#33. To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

Barbara Walters

#34. If life is a song and we are born with the lyrics, then it is up to us to create the music that fits!

Michelle Cooke

#35. And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.

Courtney Giardina

#36. Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations

John Mayer

#37. life is so dangerous, there's nothing to fear; life is so possible, every breath a frontier

Libby Roderick

#38. Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.

Lana Del Rey

#39. My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Sean Paul

#40. Too much of anything can make you sick,
even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

Cheryl Cole

#41. Music gives life to the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

Morrissey

#43. Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Hans Christian Andersen

#44. This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Morrissey

#45. You have every right to a beautiful life.

Selena Gomez

#46. The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I'm not just doing it for self-gain, I'm doing it to help others.

Beau Bokan

#47. And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Hayley Williams

#48. I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people.

Dominic Owen Mallary

#49. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

#50. Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

Carla H. Krueger

#51. You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

Rob Sheffield

#52. And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

Morrissey

#53. For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.

The Verve Pipe

#54. My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

Joy Harjo

#55. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Morrissey

#56. Believe, Believe, Believe.
Anything is very possible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#57. The worst things in life come free to us

Ed Sheeran

#58. We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#59. And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Jacques Revaux

#60. We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

Deborah Curtis

#61. Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all.

Kevin Dalton

#62. I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Criss Jami

#63. You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

Morrissey

#64. Life is as long as you live it.

Lashauna D. Hinton

#65. Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

Alexa Anderson

#66. Music is breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I'll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

Taylor Swift

#68. You must know life to see decay.

Mumford And Sons

#69. I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

Oliver Sykes

#70. It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

Robert Plant

#71. So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose
Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell
Before I'll see you with someone else.

The Band Perry

#72. Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

Lily Allen

#73. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Bil Keane

#74. Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

India.Arie

#75. If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Green Day

#76. If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.

Adam Young Owl

#77. The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye ... until we meet again

Jimi Hendrix

#78. My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail.

Alexandra Lanc

#79. You say: 'Oh, please forgive'
You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'
But sorry doesn't help us.
Sorry will not save us.
Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).
Sorry doesn't help us.
Sorry won't protect us.
Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.

Morrissey

#80. Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Morrissey

#81. If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music ... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.

Axl Rose

#82. A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Ransom Riggs

#83. Life is a pigsty.

Morrissey

#84. Here lies the girl whose only crutch
Was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do
I'm gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two.

The Band Perry

#85. They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside.

Little Mix

#86. I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.

Nikki Rowe

#87. Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'
I inquire, why
'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switch
Yeah make a way to face the music like
Life savings for a mosh pit riot
Listen to a mix
Rock the tickets, higher volume
Velocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot

Criss Jami

#88. Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.

Alexa Anderson

#89. Music; joy of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd).

Jonah Books

#91. The heart has a heart of its own.

Morrissey

#92. Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

John Lennon

#93. I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.

LIZ

#94. I see the world, it makes me puke,
But then I look at you and know,
that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

Morrissey

#95. My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Taylor Momsen

#96. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Michel Legrand

#97. If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Douglas Coupland

#98. I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

Ben Howard

#99. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#100. In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Robert Lanza