Quotes on Song

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

I have wished a bird would fly away, _x000D_ And not sing by my house all day; _x000D_ Have clapped my hands at him from the door _x000D_ When it seemed as if I could bear no more. _x000D_ The fault must partly have been in me. _x000D_ The bird was not to blame for his key. _x000D_ And of course there must be something wrong _x000D_ In wanting to silence any song.

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

Don't let the sun go down on me_x000D_ Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see_x000D_ I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free_x000D_ But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking_x000D_ Can't we give ourselves one more chance_x000D_ Why can't we give love that one more chance_x000D_ Why can't we give love_x000D_ Cause love's such an old fashioned word_x000D_ and love dares you to care for_x000D_ The people on the edge of the night_x000D_ And love dares you to change our way of_x000D_ Caring about ourselves_x000D_ This is our last dance_x000D_ This is our last dance_x000D_ This is ourselves_x000D_ Under pressure

What are these voices outside love's open door_x000D_ _x000D_ Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?_x000D_ _x000D_ I'm learning to live without you now_x000D_ _x000D_ But I miss you sometimes_x000D_ _x000D_ The more I know, the less I understand_x000D_ _x000D_ All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

When it seems like the night will last forever,_x000D_ _x000D_ And there's nothing left to do but count the years, _x000D_ _x000D_ When the strings of my harp to sever, _x000D_ _x000D_ And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... _x000D_ _x000D_ I will walk alone by the black muddy river, _x000D_ _x000D_ And dream me a dream of my own, _x000D_ _x000D_ I will walk alone by the black muddy river,_x000D_ _x000D_ And sing me a song of my own.

Sing us a song you're the piano man._x000D_ _x000D_ Sing us a song tonight._x000D_ _x000D_ Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,_x000D_ _x000D_ And you've got us feeling all right.