Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Richard Paul Evans

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Richard J. Needham

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Saint Augustine

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Reinhold Niebuhr

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Virginia Woolf

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

William Wycherley

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

Sarah Silverman

I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

Sara Zarr

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Rudyard Kipling

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Patti Smith

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Kathryn Schulz

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Katherine Mansfield

The whole world shall be ours because of our love.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Leo Tolstoy

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Joyce Carol Oates

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

John Paul Stevens

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.