Best Singer-songwriters Quotes

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

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.

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

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn’t want to do, like pop or top forty. I don’t belong there.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

The trip had become boring. It wasn’t exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn’t working for me.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

Do what you will while you’re able, find what it is that you seek.

I’m a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan’s a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-’60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

There is nothing Holy about hatred.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

I’m a lover not a fighter.

I’m never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.

when your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love

The way I work, I’m not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.