Years From Now Lyrics Quotes

#1. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Bob Dylan

#2. 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

#3. I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Kylie Minogue

#4. Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.

Colson Whitehead

#5. I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

Donald Hall

#6. What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

Daniel J. Boorstin

#7. 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

Mark Hoppus

#8. I changed the lyrics of 'All I Need Is the Girl' to 'All I Need Is the Job' for an audition years ago. It's a great ice-breaker - people want to laugh.

Bryan Batt

#9. I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

#10. I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.

Ella Eyre

#11. Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it, your face is the face I see. You're unforgettable Dahlia. You're perfect, really.

Kim Karr

#12. I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it's great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.

Ben E. King

#13. Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn't call me back, but two years later it's come full circle.

Mika.

#14. Blaze? What kind of name is that? It sounds like a male stripper.

J.L. Weil

#15. If I had one night, I'd hold you in my arms,
Find redemption, no more contention,
Keeping you close. Too long, years gone,
Wasted away. One night, our night,
Remember this. I won't forget you,
No I won't forget you. - Red-Eyed Loons

Liza M. Wiemer

#16. the Zombeatles have made a name for themselves over the past several years by performing garage-rock parodies of classic Beatles tunes with new zombiefied lyrics.

Matt Mogk

#17. I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Anthony Kiedis

#18. I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."

Malin Akerman

#19. Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.

Robin Sharma

#20. Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Drew Barrymore

#21. You have to be intentional about receiving the Father's love. Seek God. Be passionate about it. No two people have the same experience of the Father's love, because every child of God is unique.

James Goll

#22. I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

Carroll Quigley

#23. To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.

Chino Moreno

#24. There's a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of reach

Hilary Weeks

#25. I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

Paul Banks

#26. I remember the first show I had there were about 3 people, at least there was somebody. The next one was about 30. Then a couple years later there were 300 people and before I knew it there were 3,000 ... Then one day, I opened my eyes and there were 300,000 singing all my lyrics.

Lady Gaga

#27. I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.

Richard Patrick

#28. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

Albert Camus

#29. To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Simone Weil

#30. She probably longed to slap my face. They can hit us, there's Scriptural precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.

Margaret Atwood

#31. Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Geddy Lee

#32. For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation's poetry.

John McWhorter

#33. As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

Ben Harper

#34. If actions speak louder than words
I'm the most deafening noise you've heard
I'll be that ringing in your ears
That will stick around for years

Touche Amore

#35. My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Tracy Austin

#36. My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.

Jo Dee Messina