Browsing Topic Best Singer-songwriters Quotes

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.

But life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.

I realize I waited too long but please don’t move on.

You don’t even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

I have been a provoker and I’ll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, ‘ourselves’. I think I’m in that group. If I get into trouble, there’s no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it’s more like stories set to music.

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I’ve been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I’m very pleased with that…I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry…Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I’ve always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan’s emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.