Singer-songwriters Quotes - Page 6

• The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Song, Real

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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  We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Money, Confused

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

  Freddie Mercury

  Romantic, Real, People

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Directors

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

  Phil Collins

  Love, Unexpected, Rock Music

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• Believe everything you read

  Kurt Cobain

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

  Gene Wilder

  Daughter, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Jim". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

  Prince

  Sympathy, Compassion, Empathy

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• There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

  Natalie Grant

  Life, Change, God

  Song: Perfect People, Album: Relentless

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• I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

  Lady Gaga

  Musician, Typical, Mediocrity

  Song: The Fame Monster, Album: The Fame, 2008

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• Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

  John Lennon

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

  Prince Charles

  Failure, Hero, People

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  You change the world by being yourself.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2013

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• If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009

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  Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

  Prince

  Positive, Beautiful, God

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• In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.

  Jason Upton

  God, Running, People

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  Barry White

  Music, Baby, Nice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

  Liam Payne

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

  Brian Wilson

  Emotional, Thinking, Feelings

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  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.

  Amy Winehouse

  Anger, Fighting, Thinking

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