128 Lyrics & Quotes

In a world where words hold immense power, lyrics and quotes can evoke emotions, inspire change, and connect us to shared human experiences. Whether it's the poignant line from a favorite song or an unforgettable quote that echoes in your mind, these snippets of wisdom and creativity have a unique ability to resonate deeply. In this curated collection of the top 128 lyrics and quotes, we bring you a diverse selection that spans genres, eras, and philosophies, offering something for everyone. Dive in to find timeless inspiration, provoke thought, or simply enjoy the beauty of finely crafted words.

1. “I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” - Bob Dylan

2. “Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.” - Roger Waters

3. “Walk this way” - Aerosmith

4. “We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)” - Serj Tankian

5. “It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind” - Morrissey

6. “You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin” - Rodney Crowell

7. “Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.” - Mick Jagger

8. “I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save usto save us...Won't you look at the sky?They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.” - David Berman

9. “I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?” - Frank Zappa

10. “We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall” - Neil Gaiman

11. “We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.” - Neil Gaiman

12. “Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? ” - Lou Reed

13. “There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft and white,And there the sun burns crimson bright,And there the moon-bird rests from his flightTo cool in the peppermint wind.Let us leave this place where the smoke blows blackAnd the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And watch where the chalk-white arrows goTo the place where the sidewalk ends.Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,For the children, they mark, and the children, they knowThe place where the sidewalk ends.” - Shel Silverstein

14. “Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising facts in the history of all the arts. It was the demand of throughly unmusical hearers that before everything else the words must be understood, so that according to them a rebirth of music is to be expected only when some mode of singing has been discovered in which textword lords it over counterpoint like master over servant: For the words, it is argued, are as much nobler than the accompanying harmonic system as the soul is nobler than the body.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

15. “I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now.” - Morrissey

16. “Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?” - Morrissey

17. “There are more than enoughto fight and oppose;why waste good timefighting the people you like?” - Morrissey

18. “Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends ” - Morrissey

19. “How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.” - Morrissey

20. “Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.” - Morrissey

21. “Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.” - Morrissey

22. “They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.” - Morrissey

23. “Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.” - Morrissey

24. “I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.” - Morrissey

25. “My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.” - Morrissey

26. “You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.” - Morrissey

27. “I'd love to...but only with you.” - Morrissey

28. “It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.It only hurts because it's true.” - Morrissey

29. “Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm” - Morrissey

30. “Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.” - Morrissey

31. “Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,he never quite goes this low.” - Morrissey

32. “Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head.” - Morrissey

33. “And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?” - Morrissey

34. “The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.” - Morrissey

35. “When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!” - Morrissey

36. “God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!” - Morrissey

37. “With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.” - Morrissey

38. “To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.” - Morrissey

39. “I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.” - Morrissey

40. “I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” - Morrissey

41. “I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.” - Morrissey

42. “The heart has a heart of its own.” - Morrissey

43. “You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.” - Morrissey

44. “If I could be anywhere, where would I be?” - Tom Felton

45. “Well I haven't fucked much with the past,But I've fucked plenty with the future.- Babelogue” - Patti Smith

46. “Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell them not to fear no more.I'm not saying right is wrong,It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way.Cos' everything that's been has past,The answers in the looking glass.There's four and twenty million doorsOn life's endless corridor,So say it loud and sing it proud today.” - Noel Gallagher

47. “I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.” - Jakob Dylan

48. “Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid” - Bob Dylan

49. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” - Hans Christian Andersen

50. “So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]” - Taylor Swift

51. “You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.” - Emilie Autumn

52. “He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.” - Tori Amos

53. “Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk” - Daft Punk

54. “Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.” - Joni Mitchell

55. “Oh, come and stir my cauldron,And if you do it right,I'll boil you up some hot strong loveTo keep you warm tonight.” - J.K. Rowling

56. “Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.” - Bob Dylan

57. “Love me - that's all I ask of you.” - Charles Hart

58. “Only love can last.” - Madonna

59. “Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?” - Aberjhani

60. “You can't take the sky from me.” - Joss Whedon

61. “You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?” - Arctic Monkeys

62. “Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or CapuletsJust banging tunes and DJ setsAnd dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtinessI Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys

63. “I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers weren't for radiophiles. There was nothing easygoing about the folk songs I sang. They weren't friendly or ripe with mellowness. They didn't come gently to the shore. I guess you could say they weren't commercial.Not only that, my style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important that just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic. Greil Marcus, the music historian, would some thirty years later call it "the invisible republic."Whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambitions to stir things up. i just thought of popular culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk on it.I didn't know what age of history we were in nor what the truth of it was. Nobody bothered with that. If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs taught me that.” - Bob Dylan

64. “Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies.” - The Goo Goo Dolls

65. “I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.” - Fall Out Boy

66. “Say my name and his in the same breath. I dare you to say they taste the same.” - Fall Out Boy

67. “All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.” - Aimee Mann

68. “Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.” - Aimee Mann

69. “There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear. ” - Aimee Mann

70. “I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.” - Elliot Smith

71. “I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.” - Fiona Apple

72. “The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.” - Fiona Apple

73. “I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.” - Fiona Apple

74. “Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.” - The Offspring

75. “I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.” - Simon and Garfunkel

76. “Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.” - India.Arie

77. “But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin.” - Linkin Park

78. “[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.” - John Marshall Harlan

79. “Que fácil fue tocar el cielo la primera vez, cuando los besos fueron el motor de arranque, que encendió la luz que hoy se desaparece.Así se disfraza el amor para su conveniencia, aceptando todo sin hacer preguntas, y dejando al tiempo la estocada a muerte.” - Ricardo Arjona

80. “They can take tomorrow and the plans we made They can take the music that we'll never play All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday They can take the future that we'll never know They can take the places that we said we would go All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday” - Leona Lewis

81. “He'd like you to join the club that likes to saythere's no such thing as love ...” - Patty Griffin

82. “They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.” - Vic Chesnutt

83. “All we shared was a mattress, and a lie, and an addressBaby I don't need you, well baby I don't need youOnce occupied by a goddess, now it's a room full of boxesShe said, "it's time to leave you" but baby I don't need you! In a perfect world... her face would not existIn a perfect world... a broken heart is fixed” - Billy Talent

84. “Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence.” - Enigma

85. “If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you” - Criss Jami

86. “I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine” - Eddie Vedder

87. “Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tensionAnd not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.” - Hayley Williams

88. “Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth” - Stephen Stills

89. “For mankind you've made your wintry bed.A shipwreck of your own mortality” - Marie Symeou

90. “Gute Reise, Gute Reise.Ein Jahr vergeht wie ein Moment.Und komm gesund zurück.Gute Reise, Gute Reise.Keine Grenze, die uns trennt.Und komm gesund zurück, komm gesund zurück.” - Ich+Ich

91. “Chaos isn't good for your health.” - India Arie

92. “It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.” - Neil Young

93. “It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.” - Aimee Mann

94. “We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet picked up from the stereo or the TV. 'What does that mean, then?' my mother asked me during Top of the Pops. "Get it on / Bang a gong"? How long did it take him to think of that, do you reckon?' And the correct answer - 'Two seconds, and it doesn't matter' - is always beyond you, so you just tell her to shut up, while inside you're hating Marc Bolan for making you like him even though he sings about getting it on and banging gongs.” - Nick Hornby

95. “Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?” - Demi Lovato

96. “If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?” - Eddie Vedder

97. “You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it” - Criss Jami

98. “Daylight fades away as I watch you.Darkness claims the sky and I wish you knewthat nothing you can do can keep me from you.But I stay out of sight and only whisper to you.Words I can’t say. Words you don’t need to hear.Words I can’t keep from tangling my way.Now, I can’t stand alone.Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”“You stand wanting more than you could ever understand. I stand helpless needing to give in to your every command.Wanting to see you smile has consumed me and tied both my hands.Nothing I offer could ever be worthy of your love.It’s a miracle that you saw me and never ran.I will spend my whole life trying to be the man you think I am. Now, I can’t stand alone. Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”“You hold fire within your gaze. It mesmerizes everyone you allow into your maze.I know nothing of your thoughtsbut I need to bask within the warmth of your rays.Nothing you do could ever be wrong.You’re forever perfect in every way. Now, I can’t stand alone. Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.” ~ Dank” - Abbi Glines

99. “Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can move itAnd with faith enough there's nothing I can't doAnd I can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd I can see the light of brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]” - Dolly Parton

100. “I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.” - Seasick Steve

101. “And now I know that you're the oneI've waited my whole life forYou're budding leaves turning green in springYou're the fresh breath of air that summer bringsYou're the autumn sky painted in rainbow huesYou're the wintry ocean dancing in shimmering bluesYou're the air I breahteYou're the water I drinkYou're the fire inside meThe earth under my feet You're the one” - Kendall Grey

102. “I don't want to feel you die,but if that's the way that God has planned youWell, I'll put pennies on your eyes.And it will go away, see?You've only lived a minute of your life.I must be dreaming...Is someone calling me? No...I think I hear a voice,They're outside the door!” - Alice Cooper

103. “Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.” - Eric Church

104. “I stay out of sight and only whisper to you.Words I can’t say. Words you don’t need to hear. Words I can’t keep from tangling my way.Now, I can’t stand alone. I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows. You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.You stand wanting more than you could ever understand.I stand helpless, needing to give in to your every command. Wanting to see you smile has consumed me and tied both my hands.Nothing I offer could ever be worthy of your love.It’s a miracle that you saw me and never ran.I will spend my whole life trying to be the man you think I am.Now, I can’t stand-alone. Now, I am under your influence. I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms. You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”“You hold fire within your gaze.It mesmerizes everyone you allow into your maze. I know nothing of your thoughts but I need to bask within the warmth of your rays. Nothing you do could ever be wrong. You’re forever perfect in every way.Now, I can’t stand-alone. Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown. You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows. You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows. I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”~ Dank Walker” - Abbi Glines

105. “While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

106. “Hield 'ie vroeger al zijn meningen en al zijn dromen stil. Nu was 'ie niks niet niemand nergens meer. Kan dus gaan waar 'ie maar wil.” - Acda en De Munnik

107. “Ik ga er stiekem tussen uit, een vluchtweg naar een nieuw begin.” - Blof

108. “I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly” - Criss Jami

109. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.” - Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10

110. “You are my world, my everything You stupid girl, you're gonna be the death of me So let me go, just let me be You stupid girl, I love the way you're killing me (killing me) You stupid girl (killing me) You stupid girl” - Framing Hanley

111. “You taste like Heaven, but God knows you're built for sin” - Framing Hanley

112. “You only get one go at it... might as well Rock it.” - Tommie Vaughn

113. “Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.” - Sara Quin

114. “Some things are better off forgottenWe bury them in places that we really only visit by ourselvesOh you were a version like no otherOh they never tell you what to do when all you see is goneWhat's the sense in anything when what they say is wrong?” - Stone Sour - Anna

115. “So when your hopes on fire,But you know your desire,Don't hold a glass over the flame,Don't let your heart grow cold, I will call you by name, I will share your road.” - Mumford Sons

116. “I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” - Lana Del Rey

117. “I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” - Lana Del Rey

118. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.” - Lana Del Rey

119. “Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.” - Lana Del Rey

120. “What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit herStuck her with knives in the side of the dawnAnd tied her with fences and dragged her down” - Jim Morrison

121. “The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.” - Modest Mouse

122. “You're a shameful opportunist! What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"You have it backwards... it's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees” - Rise Against

123. “Too much of anything can make you sick,even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole” - Cheryl Cole

124. “Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!” - Pink Floyd

125. “Set your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide...” - M83

126. “You know I'm no good” - Amy Winehouse

127. “Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.” - P nk

128. “The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you” - John Lennon