Ocean Song Lyric Quotes

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. ~ David Levithan

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it ... Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance. ~ Ben Gibbard

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same. ~ Gregory Orr

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' ~ Taylor Swift

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response. ~ Jennifer Warnes

And we dance all night to The Best Song ever!
-One Direction ~ One Direction

The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school. ~ RZA

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own. ~ Sheryl Crow

I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back. ~ Ocean Vuong

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. ~ Conor Oberst

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.' ~ Curtis Jackson

Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first guy I've been in the studio with him since 16, sometimes he'd have an idea and I'd put a lyric to it and then the track evolves, there's no set way to write a song. ~ Paolo Nutini

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' ~ Mitch Leigh

Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back ~ Lyric

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song. ~ Joe Meno

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. ~ Santosh Kalwar

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. ~ Ernesto Cardenal

I'm no good at goodbyes

-50 Ways To Say Goodbye ~ Train

Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it. ~ Five For Fighting

You make my heart shake bend and break ~ Troye Sivan

I think the difference between a good song and a great song is ... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have a really solid melody and solid track and everything is there but then the lyric is just okay, then you've got a good song. ~ Bonnie McKee

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric. ~ Jon Foreman

I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor! ~ Dave Koz

I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the Ocean. ~ Lisa See

Or you can just start speaking up...

-Brave ~ Sara Bareilles

Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name

Ooh ~ Olly Murs

All you ever did was...WRECK ME...

-Wrecking Ball ~ Miley Cyrus

We sang, nearly shouting the lyrics, the wind clipping at our voices. They say a song can be a bridge, Ma. But I say it's also the ground we stand on. And maybe we sing to keep ourselves from falling. Maybe we sing to keep ourselves. ~ Ocean Vuong

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from. ~ Jessie Baylin

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement. ~ Greta Salpeter

Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive. ~ Grace Gealey

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song. ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Life is a song. Your heart is the beat, your word is the lyric, your move is the dance. And love, love is the music.

It has always been a dream of mine to sing my love away, let the music take her love to mine, the lyric touches her heart and soul. And may her head fallen over heel and so am I. ~ Gkynwin

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted. ~ Imogen Heap

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands ~ Elton John

It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words. ~ Cecelia Ahern

In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music. ~ Jim Morrison

love is but an echo in her head ~ David Cantor

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul. ~ Jon Landau

Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument. ~ Eliot Lewis

You'll be mine and I'll be yours. ~ Taylor Swift

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten. ~ Gabrielle Aplin

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. ~ Edward Hirsch

To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water. ~ Debasish Mridha

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular. ~ Al Madrigal

The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sing the song of love. ~ Debasish Mridha

The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going ~ Enya

Start with your heart, and only good can follow! ~ Ocean

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? ~ Jim Capaldi

Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress ~ Umar

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? ~ David Mitchell

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry. ~ Gregory Orr

But I always loved songs with great lyrics. ~ Johnny Rivers

I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am. ~ Teddy Pendergrass

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say. ~ Lorde

I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt ~ Ocean Vuong

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell. ~ Herb Alpert

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. ~ Mooji

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. ~ William Stafford

You're my bread when I'm hungry
You're my shelter from troubled winds
You're my anchor in life's ocean
Most of all
You're my best friend ~ Don Williams

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop. ~ Mother Teresa

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. ~ James Taylor

Find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox. ~ Mindy Kaling

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. ~ Vanessa Paradis

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. ~ Boris Pasternak

My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house. ~ Al Madrigal

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges? ~ Stephen Hawking

Be patient, is very good advice, but the waiting makes me curious. ~ Oliver Wallace & Paul J. Smith

Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid. ~ James Hansen

I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it. ~ Natalie Grant

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean. ~ Oscar Wilde

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem. ~ Vijay Seshadri

Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape subsumed the breeze and fell, to form further on, a brighter emerald, a duller amethyst. Odors flushed the wind with vinegar, snow, ocean, ginger, poppies, rum. Autumn, ocean, ginger, ocean, autumn; ocean, ocean, the surge of ocean again, while light foamed in the dimming blue that underlit the Mouse's face. Electric arpeggios of a neo-raga rilled. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. ~ Rumi

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically. ~ Sylvia Earle

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean ... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. ~ Vladimir Putin

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop. ~ Deepak Chopra

Only know your lover when you let her go
And you let her go
-Let Her Go ~ Passenger

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too. ~ Richie Sambora

I knew there was something special between us, knew it as surely as a lyric that belonged in a song. But as with all good songs, I needed time to figure out the melody and chords. ~ Cari Quinn

Though all the world betrays thee,
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard,
One faithful harp shall praise thee! ~ The Minstrel Boy

What do you think my brain is made for?
Is it just a container for the mind?
This great grey matter,
Sensei replied what is your woman,
Is she just a container for the child?
That soft pink matter ~ Frank Ocean

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean. ~ Rajneesh

The vast open sea at night is a song being written; a rhyme, a mysterious and gentle arpeggiated work of Beethoven. It's sung by the waves as they travel on the face of the ocean, and their lyrics are the rhythm of the pounding surf. ~ Giselle V. Steele

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

A Drop of the Ocean is still the Ocean. ~ John Friend

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it. ~ Alison Krauss

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. ~ Ovid

The Atlantic Ocean was something then. ~ John Guare

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said. ~ Patti Callahan Henry

It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The beginning lyric is, "There's almost a sentimental feeling to another time," and when I got together with Kevin, he just absolutely, in his own fashion, just pushed me to go deeper than I usually would want people to know. That was the most difficult part for me was to bring someone in. ~ Andy Kim

She was an ocean, and he was just a sinking man lost in her waves. ~ Giselle Beaumont

We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love. ~ Maria Elena

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers. ~ Tom Lehrer

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first. ~ Carole King

[…] remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

from "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong," The New Yorker: Poems. May 4, 2015 Issue. ~ Ocean Vuong