“Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.” MenLongEyeSongSeaLove YouHairCallingKissingMadShiningFlamesShoreLove YourselfNestsKiss MeSparrowsFoamWild Things Author:Jewel
“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsBeautifulSongGirlSidesSituationLove YouExtremesBeautiful WomenBeing In LoveGrenade Author:Bruno Mars
“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.” IfsWantFeelsPersonsPlayFormJoySongTurnsThreeOpportunityMinutesLove YouUniqueMusicalLengthSay I Love YouUnique Opportunities Author:Marsha Norman
“I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back.” SoulPlaySongPathRecordsLove YouBabyHollywoodMiracleSellingRhythmMy SoulPossessedLooking BackTornLyricalLuciferLove You LikeI Love You Like Author:Selena Gomez
“An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.” WritingKindPersonsSaidHateSongFourLove YouI HatePopsProducersObservationGoing AwayHate YouI Hate YouPop MusicMusic Producer Author:Matt Redman
“I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.” PeopleThinkingMomentsCertainSongSimpleLove YouLettersSickAppreciationLovelyAssociatesLove Your Work Author:Michael Bolton
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.” KnowsIdeasSongLove YouTomorrowSingingMexican Author:Larry Wall
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingHeartArtistSongTurnsStuffBitsRecordsWrittenTreeModernLove YouWindColdMy HeartMusic IsOkayAssBrokeBrownLove Each OtherSigningWigsHeart BrokeBlowing ItModern Music Author:Frank Zappa
“Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, paint, write poetry, but you would not take a bayonet or an atom bomb and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing, who are as unknown to you as you are to them.” PeopleWantWritingMayDoneSongEnergyLove IsCreativeLove YouPaintBombsDestructiveAtomsRushingCreative EnergyAtom BombBayonets Author:Rajneesh
“There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.” WayDifferentSongLove YouDifferent WaysSay I Love You Author:Celine Dion
“All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.” ThinkingWorldGovernmentSongBeliefProcessLove YouMessagesFormatThinking ProcessDo You Love Me Author:Rob Halford
“I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingPersonsI CanHardUseFeelingsSongLove YouFiguresHard TimesSay I Love You Author:Jenny Lewis
“Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.” PeopleThinkingHeartHas BeensMadeSongCoursesCareersLove YouMy HeartMore MoneyAlways Love YouWill Always Love YouI Will Always Love You Author:Dolly Parton
“'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.” WayLittlesEndsStoriesSongLove YouOne WayPoppingAlways Love YouWill Always Love YouI Will Always Love You Author:Dolly Parton
“It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.” WorldProblemSongJesusSituationLordLove YouPraiseVerticalHorizontal Author:Kirk Franklin
“Let's face it songs are about love, which is, I love you, I don't love you, come here, go away, I miss you, I don't miss you. I'm lonely. I'm not lonely. It's, it's all about affairs of the heart. And we can all relate to those.” HeartFacesSongLove YouMissingLonelyAffairRelateGoing AwayI Don't Love YouI'm LonelyAffairs Of The Heart Author:Jeff Barry
“As a song writer when I first was aware of the Beatles and started, you couldn't avoid hearing it, not that I, I tried. And what, what struck me was not so much the songs or the part of the songs that, that seemed unique to me were, was more melodic at the beginning than, than the lyrics because they were still talking about, you know, I love you, I don't love you and I need you or don't need you.” KnowsNeedsFirstsStillsSongTalkingLove YouUniqueHearingNeed YouI Need YouDon't Need YouI Don't Love YouYou Know I Love You Author:Jeff Barry
“I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.” ThinkingWantNeedsWritingMeanImportantSongInterestLove YouPopsGutsPullingPop SongVested Interests Author:Lauren Mayberry
“The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.” SongHeardLove YouCoupleLike Something Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.” MenSongLove YouHe ManGuitarSlides Author:Margaret Cho
“I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.” WritingBookWantedSongHappenedLove YouDirect Author:Devendra Banhart
“When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"” ThinkingWantYearsMightSongStuffForeverLove YouYeahRadioComing OutAlways Love YouI Love You Always Author:Caroline Polachek
“There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.” SongLove YouCatLazyWeedBeing In LoveBeing Lazy Author:Bethany Cosentino
“When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.” WritingYearsIdeasWantedSpiritualSongSexLove YouSex Relationships Author:Joan Jett
“There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.” FeelsKindSongStrongLove YouEmotionalBabyElementsVisualsVery StrongStrong EmotionalI Love You Baby Author:Nick Cave
“Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.” SongEmotionPiecesLove YouParticularRegretZero Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or "you're so hot right now," or "I really feel you," or "We should be together." There aren't that many songs that are like, "I just walked into the room and now I have nothing to say because I feel so awkward because I fancy you so much." There's not as many songs that deal with that awkward bit about love; about how you can really have such a huge crush on someone that actually is completely disabling.” TogetherSongForeverLove YouHotCrushBreakupAwkwardPop MusicLove You Forever Author:Shura
“It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews. When people tell me they love the book, I just shrug and say, "Yeah, whatever." My shrink says it's all about the love within. You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.” PeopleWritingBelieveBookDifferentHateSongAcceptingLove YouMemoirComplimentJudgedLove YourselfHate You Author:Dean Wareham
“You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say "I love you" over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about” PeopleThinkingSongLove YouComplainingUnrequited LoveCornyUnrequitedCheesySay I Love You Author:Stephin Merritt
“When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.” TryingSongLove YouRhymePop Song Author:Stephin Merritt
“I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.” PeopleSongDyingLove YouEmpathyI RealizedNeed LoveFear Of Dying Author:Bradford Cox
“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.” LoveDeathSongFeetLove YouSixSinger SongwritersBeatles LoveGreat BeatlesGreatest Beatles Author:John Lennon
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” LoveLifeInspirationalEndsSongLove IsMusicMarriageRelationshipLove YouWise WordsEqualBirthdayComposerHis LoveGreat LoveMusic LoveLoving SomeoneSinger SongwritersLyricalFamous LoveLove MakingGreatest LoveTime LoveWhen You Love SomeoneI Love MusicBeen In LoveInspirational MusicInspiring LoveMeaning Of LoveMusic LifeFound LoveWeddings And LoveYoung BirthdayClassic RockDefinition Of LoveSweet MusicBeatles LoveMusic And LoveGreat BeatlesGreatest BeatlesMusic And HealingGreatest MusicMusic HealingWhen A Man Loves A WomanCelebrity RelationshipRock SongBeatles PeaceHonest RelationshipMusic And LyricsAbbey RoadEqual LoveGreatest SongLove Takes Time Author:Paul McCartney
“There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.” GivingFeelingsCertainSongUniverseLove YouSingingGenerosityAffirmationCasting Author:Jason Mraz
“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingIdeasDifferentSongLove YouSticksGreat IdeaLike LoveLot Like Love Author:Taylor Swift
“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” KnowsLoveLongDreamSongPrayerAnswersKnow HowLove YouWithout YouNotebookLove And MarriageMovie LoveNotebook LoveNotebook Memorable Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.” WayFirstsLooksLongPlayHandsRomanceSongMemoriesAirLove YouCoupleLoversWalkingStandingTheaterEnvyParksStationsTouchingEchoesVagueAcheChordsHand In HandBenchesStirringSubwayBittersweetShuffleQueuesMusic LoverPark BenchesWalking Hand In Hand Author:Charles de Lint
“That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.” HeartLittlesSongStarsPayAttentionLaughingLove YouShiningSensesReleasePay AttentionReachingLife And DeathLittle ThingsReach OutLeafsShine On Book:Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel
“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.” I CanRunningSongLove YouYesterdayGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeKeep RunningLove You MoreI Love You More Author:John Mayer