Songs In Real Life Quotes

#1. In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

Christina Perri

#2. Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Sharon Van Etten

#3. In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

Jack White

#4. I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

Peter Camejo

#5. Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. I smashed all the windows in my ex-boyfriend's truck." "You did what?" I couldn't have heard her correctly. That did not happen in real life. Country songs, yes. Real life, no way.

Abbi Glines

#7. It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

#9. I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Wole Soyinka

#10. In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

Estelle

#11. Dont pretend to be that small, you are not that great!

Peter Heller

#12. The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Melissa Etheridge

#13. People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Jake Barton

#14. Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand.

Barbara Park

#15. I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

Lapo Elkann

#16. In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Adam Levine

#17. When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

Nina Nesbitt

#18. You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

Chrissie Hynde

#19. All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

Ann Wilson

#20. I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

Steve Forbert

#21. Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

Rob Sheffield

#22. I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Lyle Lovett

#23. Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

Ray Comfort

#24. I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

Kelly Clarkson

#25. He shrugged. Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

Philippa Gregory

#26. One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Mark Twain

#27. I'm the oldest antique in town.

Norman Rockwell

#28. I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.

Carrie Underwood

#29. I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

Brie Larson