#songs

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs. ↗

— Rita Ora

#given #honest #just #songs #tell

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart ↗

— Christina Perri

#christina-perri #lyrics #songs #lyrics

When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon." "And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its visage in the lake, and told it to the water 'neath the willows. The water told it to the rower's oar. "And the oar has told it to the boat, and the boat has passed the secret to the fisher. Alas! alas! if that were only all! But the fisher told the secret to a woman. "The fisher told the secret to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters, and all of Hellas now shall know the tale. ↗

— Pierre Louÿs

#lovers #poetry #songs-of-bilitis #tryst #love

Incluso en estos tiempos en los que soy feliz de otra manera, todos los días tienen ese instante en que me jugaría la primavera por tenerte delante. ↗

— Joaquín Sabina

#melancholy #songs-lyrics #love

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs. ↗

— Bjork

#i #i do #interviews #protecting #reason

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code. ↗

— Frank Black

#code #going #how #know #might

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love #memories #songs #inspirational

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#good #inspirational #songs #inspirational

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#best #bridges #change #choruses #figured

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#i #known #other #songs #than