Words Quotes

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

Music is only love looking for words.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.