songs quotes

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.