"[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that."
Read quote
5 likes
Song quotes
Song
10.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Song
Browse quotes that often appear alongside song — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Song quotes (page 63 of 536)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Read quote
5 likes
"That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that."
Read quote
5 likes
"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
Read quote
5 likes
"Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way."
Read quote
5 likes
"A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore."
Read quote
5 likes
"The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet."
Read quote
5 likes
"If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get some change off of it, but the real fans are going to be those that come to the shows."
Read quote
5 likes
"I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine."
Read quote
5 likes
"I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people."
Read quote
5 likes
"Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one."
Read quote
5 likes
"But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk."
Read quote
5 likes
"When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time"
Read quote
5 likes
"After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway."
Read quote
5 likes
"I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla."
Read quote
5 likes
"It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs."
Read quote
5 likes
"I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too."
Read quote
5 likes
"I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles."
Read quote
5 likes
"I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding."
Read quote
5 likes
"Each time I play a song it seems more real."
Read quote
5 likes