Words Quotes
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
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I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
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I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.
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Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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The essence of a therapeutic relationship: finding words where words were absent before and, as a result, being able to share your deepest pain and deepest feelings with another human being. This is one of the most profound experiences we can have, and such resonance, in which hitherto unspoken words can be discovered, uttered, and received, is fundamental to healing the isolation of trauma—especially if other people in our lives have ignored or silenced us. Communicating fully is the opposite of being traumatized.
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
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Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.
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I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
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Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.
