Songwriter quotes

Unleash the magic with quotes from talented songwriters. Explore lyrical genius and musical inspiration in our curated collection.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

- George Michael

You can’t have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

- George Michael

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

- George Michael

It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.

- George Michael

It helps if you have a beard as it covers a multitude of sins. It really does.

- George Michael

If you don’t feel you’re reaching something new, then don’t do it.

- George Michael

I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.

- George Michael

I’ve achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

- George Michael

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when when two people really belong to each other.

- George Michael

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

- George Michael

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

- George Michael

Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.

- George Michael

Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

- George Michael

As you become older, you become more selective. Most celebrities bore me to tears.

- George Michael

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

- Freddie Mercury

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

- Freddie Mercury

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

- Freddie Mercury

The show must go on.

- Freddie Mercury

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

- Freddie Mercury

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

- Freddie Mercury

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

- Freddie Mercury

If it's planned, it's boring.

- Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

- Freddie Mercury

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

- Freddie Mercury

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

- Freddie Mercury

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

- Freddie Mercury

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

- Freddie Mercury

There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

- Marilyn Manson

The key to changing the way people think is to change what’s popular. That’s why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

- Marilyn Manson

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.

- Marilyn Manson