45 Song Lyric Quotes

Are you searching for inspiration or a deeper connection to your favorite songs? Song lyrics have an incredible way of resonating with our emotions, capturing the essence of human experiences, and expressing thoughts in ways that sometimes words alone cannot. We've curated a collection of the top 45 song lyric quotes that not only highlight lyrical genius but also offer moments of reflection, motivation, and nostalgia. Whether you're a music aficionado or just looking for words that speak to your soul, this list promises to strike a chord with you. Dive in and rediscover the magic of music through these timeless lines.

1. “Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.” - Peter Yarrow

2. “And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.” - Stephen Chbosky

3. “When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.” - Rob Sheffield

4. “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

5. “Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by” - Nena

6. “He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.” - Laura Adams Armer

7. “A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot” - Martina Mcbride

8. “Lose your dream, you lose your mind.” - The Rolling Stones

9. “Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.” - Tori Amos

10. “Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380” - Charles Frazier

11. “The shorter story;No love, no glory;No hero in her skies.” - Damien Rice

12. “[Wheel] rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be a part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. I have a theoru that the answers to all og life's major questions can be found in a John Mayer song.” - Susane Colasanti

13. “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” - Yip Harburg

14. “Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

15. “I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.” - Ricardo Arjona

16. “Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

17. “Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.” - Tom Waits

18. “He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.” - Tom Waits

19. “A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” - Colbie Caillat

20. “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” - Criss Jami

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

22. “He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.” - Sherman Alexie

23. “There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.” - Kami Garcia

24. “The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.” - James Jones

25. “I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

26. “There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.” - Oliver Sacks

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Did Bach ever eatpancakes at midnight?” - Nathan Reese Maher

30. “Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” - Nathan Reese Maher

31. “There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in thedarkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.” - Nathan Reese Maher

32. “I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.” - Nathan Reese Maher

33. “She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.” - Nathan Reese Maher

34. “That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what youshould name it.” - Nathan Reese Maher

35. “Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreamsplay when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?” - Nathan Reese Maher

36. “History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.” - Nathan Reese Maher

37. “I suspect that I’m not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment: diving into a specific book, immersing inside a particular movie, devouring certain foods or humming to just the right song.” - Barbara Brooke

38. “The song reminds me of my life lately and the way things that happen devastate you so badly but then turn around and totally surprise you by growing into something unexpected and astounding. Of course, i could be wrong. I mean, who knows what the song is really about except whoever wrote it? But that's one of the many things about music that's so great. You can interpret a song and relate it to your life any way you want.” - Love Maia

39. “I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists can get by on their voices and their style, but my songs speak volumes, and all I have to to is lay them down correctly, lyrically, and they'll do what they need to do.” - Bob Dylan

40. “Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

41. “Para mentiras las de la realidadpromete todo pero nada te da,yo nunca de mentímás que por verte reir.Menos piadosas que las del corazónson las mentiras de la diosa razón,yo solo te conté media verdad al revés(que no es igual que media mentira).Mejor que yo miente la necesidad;sabe de sobra como hacerte llorar;mi crimen fue vestirde azul al príncipe gris.” - Joaquin Sabina

42. “Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.” - Steve Maraboli

43. “Wenn jemand sagt, das sei Krach, was ich höre, ist mir das egal, Hauptsache, es funktioniert, Hauptsache, es hat die Kraft eines Vulkanausbruchs, Hauptsache, es gibt mir das Gefühl, unbesiegbar und unsterblich zu sein, jung, schön und stark.Henry Miller hat einmal gesagt, Musik sei der Dosenöffner der Seele, ich bin mir sicher, er würde da meine Lieblingsbands nicht ausschließen, wenn er noch leben würde.Es gibt ein paar Songs, die begleiten mich seit Jahren, und ich betrachte sie als meine Freunde, ich werde nie überdrüssig, diese Handvoll Songs zu hören, (...). Ich habe jeden einzelnen Ton im Kopf, das ist etwas, das mir niemand nehmen kann, dieser Song ist mir heilig, er ist ein Teil von mir, und wenn ich mich mies fühle, ziehe ich Songs wirklichen Freunden vor, weil sie sich nicht verändern, es scheint mir dann, als ob sie das einzige wären, auf das ich mich verlassen kann. Musik. Musik und Bücher. Aber das passiert mir zum Glück nicht allzuoft, dass ich jegliches Vertrauen in die Menschheit verliere.” - Selim Özdogan

44. “Start with your heart, and only good can follow!” - Ocean

45. “So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.” - Aaron Copland