Quotes with tag: Perspective
"But I've got this guitar, and I can barely play."
Artist: The Loved Ones
Song: Jane
Album: Keep Your Heart, 2006
"I guess I didn't have a clue, I thought the world would change with the right song."
Artist: Face to Face
Song: Shoot the Moon
Album: How to Ruin Everything, 2002
"Well, time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days."
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Song: Glory Days
Album: Born in the U.S.A., 1984
"I'm shutting out the whole world just to play Nintendo, I've got these new games but I'm afraid you can't join me."
Artist: Millencolin
Song: Bullion
Album: Life on a Plate, 1996
"Don't wait too long to come home. My how the years and our youth pass on."
Artist: The Gaslight Anthem
Song: Miles Davis and the Cool
Album: The '59 Sound, 2008
"Know that 15 minutes of famous ain't gonna be what makes us or breaks us. But we'll all be watchin' the TV, the day that it comes."
Artist: Florida Georgia Line feat. Tim McGraw
Song: May We All
Album: Dig Your Roots, 2016
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop, it'll soon be here. "
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Song: Don't Stop
Album: Rumours, 1977
"Shoot the moon...Hit or miss it makes no difference."
Artist: Face to Face
Song: Shoot the Moon
Album: How to Ruin Everything, 2002
"They sleep with hornets, and they wonder why they wake up stung."
Artist: Matt Nathanson
Song: Room @ the End of the World
Album: Modern Love, 2011
"I'm not the man they think I am at home."
Artist: Elton John
Song: Rocket Man
Album: Honky Chateau, 1972
"And the piano sounds like a carnival. And the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and say “Man what are you doing here?”"
Artist: Billy Joel
Song: Piano Man
Album: Piano Man, 1973
"The price may be: to keep your heart, you'll lose your head."
Artist: The Loved Ones
Song: The Odds
Album: Keep Your Heart, 2006
"All in all, it was just a brick in the wall...All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall."
Artist: Pink Floyd
Song: Another Brick in the Wall
Album: The Wall, 1979
"You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man."
Artist: John Parr
Song: St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
Album: St. Elmo's Fire Soundtrack, 1985
"I ain't trading my youth for no suit and jacket...I ain't giving my freedom for your money and status"
Artist: Judah & the Lion
Song: Suit and Jacket
Album: Folk Hop n' Roll, 2016
"And do you feel scared? I do. But I won't stop and falter."
Artist: Howard Jones
Song: Things Can Only Get Better
Album: Dream Into Action, 1985
"When this hourglass has filtered out its final grain of sand, I raise my glass to the memories we had."
Artist: The Ataris
Song: So Long, Astoria
Album: So Long, Astoria, 2003
"Life is only as good as the memories we make."
Artist: The Ataris
Song: So Long, Astoria
Album: So Long, Astoria, 2003
"Just as long as I’m where you’re at, I’m gonna have a real good view."
Artist: Jake Owen
Song: Anywhere Witb You
Album: Barefoot Blue Jean Night, 2011
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all."
Artist: Tim McGraw
Song: Cowboy in Me
Album: Set This Circus Down, 2001
"You'll never see the end of the road when you're traveling with me."
Artist: Crowded House
Song: Don't Dream It's Over
Album: Crowded House, 1986
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous."
Artist: Nirvana
Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Album: Nevermind, 1991
"Jesus don't love me, no one ever carried my load. I'm too young to feel this old."
Artist: Kings of Leon
Song: Cold Desert
Album: Only by the Night, 2008
"I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes...I'm coming home."
Artist: Diddy
Song: Coming Home (feat. Skylar Grey)
Album: Last Train to Paris, 2010
"Troubles will come, and they will pass."
Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Song: Simple Man
Album: pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd, 1973
"I might only have one match, but I can make an explosion."
Artist: Rachel Platten
Song: Fight Song
Album: Wildfire, 2015
"No one's knocked upon my door, for a thousand years or more. All made up and no where to go - welcome to this one-man show."
Artist: The Police
Song: So Lonely
Album: Outlandos d'Amour, 1978
"Only hope can keep me together."
Artist: The Police
Song: Message in a Bottle
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet."
Artist: The Police
Song: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Album: Ghost in the Machine, 1981
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Song: Lie in Our Graves
Album: Crash, 1996
"Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments."
Artist: Florence + the Machine
Song: Shake It Out
Album: Ceremonials, 2011
"The road is long, with many a winding turn."
Artist: The Hollies
Song: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Album: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, 1969
"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose."
Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Like A Rolling Stone
Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
"If time has taught me anything...got to learn to be the ball"
Artist: Kenny Loggins
Song: Nobody's Fool
Album: Caddyshack II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 1988
"What I've felt, what I've known - never shined through in what I've shown."
Artist: Metallica
Song: The Unforgiven
Album: Metallica, 1991
"I don't want a never-ending life. I just want to be alive while I'm here."
Artist: The Strumbellas
Song: Spirits
Album: Hope, 2016
"I wanna live, not just survive."
Artist: Destiny's Child
Song: Survivor
Album: Survivor, 2001
"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Song: Dreams
Album: Rumours, 1977
"Then we played bones, and I'm yellin', 'Domino!'"
Artist: Ice Cube
Song: It Was a Good Day
Album: The Predator, 1992
"I'm not afraid to take a stand, everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone."
Artist: Eminem
Song: Not Afraid
Album: Recovery, 2010
"And of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done."
Artist: Len
Song: Steal My Sunshine
Album: You Can't Stop the Bum Rush, 1999
"Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it."
Artist: Pixies
Song: Where Is My Mind?
Album: Surfer Rosa, 1988
"I've been looking so long at these pictures of you, that I almost believe that they're real."
Artist: The Cure
Song: Pictures of You
Album: Disintegration, 1989
"The tides have caused the flame to dim."
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Song: All My Love
Album: In Through the Out Door, 1979
"Don't think aloud, but have a voice. And when you think the time is right, don't ever be afraid to fight."
Artist: Face to Face
Song: Complicated
Album: Face to Face, 1996
"These breakup songs make sense again, and I really wish they didn't."
Artist: The Ataris
Song: Summer Wind Was Always Our Song
Album: End Is Forever, 2001
"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich."
Artist: Men at Work
Song: Down Under
Album: Business as Usual, 1981
"It's times like these you learn to live again."
Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: Times Like These
Album: One By One, 2002
"He's bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee."
Artist: Dire Straits
Song: Money For Nothing
Album: Brothers in Arms, 1985
"Giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon."
Artist: The Police
Song: Walking On The Moon
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"We close our eyes and the world has turned around again."
Artist: Oingo Boingo
Song: We Close Our Eyes
Album: Boi-ngo, 1987
"Life is too short, so love the one you got."
Artist: Sublime
Song: What I Got
Album: Sublime, 1996
"You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow, this opportunity comes once in a lifetime"
Artist: Eminem
Song: Lose Yourself
Album: 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture, 2002
"Seems I'm not alone at being alone - hundred billion castaways, looking for a home."
Artist: The Police
Song: Message in a Bottle
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"Love can mend your life but love can break your heart."
Artist: The Police
Song: Message in a Bottle
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"We like our music loud in this here band."
Artist: Sublime
Song: Get Ready
Album: Sublime, 1996
"When we rise it's like strawberry fields."
Artist: Bush
Song: Glycerine
Album: Sixteen Stone, 1994
"The fire in your eyes keeps me alive."
Artist: The Cult
Song: She Sells Sanctuary
Album: Love, 1985
"You know what they said? Well, some of it was true!"
Artist: The Clash
Song: London Calling
Album: London Calling, 1979
"I see it clearer in the rearview mirror than I ever did lookin' out over the hood."
Artist: Florida Georgia Line
Song: Hell Raisin' Heat of the Summer
Album: Here's to the Good Times, 2012
"Try to see it once my way."
Artist: Alice in Chains
Song: Would
Album: Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992