All of us cherish a special love song. Listening to it makes us feel like we’re slow-dancing with our loved ones, feeling happy and being in love. But love songs aren’t only for couples; they’re for those whose hearts are broken as well. These sad love songs also speak for unrequited love and for the ones that got away. Love songs are meant to represent human emotions and romantic relationships.
Perhaps, the reason why people like love songs is that we know that love is a wonderful feeling and we crave it every day. Music has a special way of helping us understand and express our emotions in a gentle and loving way.
The following love song quotes we prepared for you explain the importance of love songs in our lives and the reasons why we should keep on listening to them. We hope you’ll love them as much as we do.
Love Song Quotes
1. I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. ‘Wanna Say’ is one of the few love songs I’ve ever done. – Kat Graham
2. There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea. You became the light on the dark side of me. Love remained a drug that’s the high and not the pill. But did you know, that when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen. – Seal
3. When the skies are gray and all the doors are closing, and the rising pressure makes it hard to breathe, when all I need’s a hand to stop the tears from falling, I will find him, I’ll find him next to me. – Emili Sandé
4. Some people search for a fountain that promises forever young. Some people need three dozen roses, and that’s the only way to prove you love them. Hand me the world on a silver platter. And what good would it be with no one to share, with no one who truly cares for me. – Alicia Keys
5. I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May. I guess you’d say, ‘What can make me feel this way?’ My girl, my girl, my girl. Talkin’ ’bout my girl. My girl. – The Temptations
6. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. – Frank Zappa
7. 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. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary. – Jason Mraz
8. I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone. Although I haven’t built a niche yet, I’m just writing love songs. – Adele
9. I love, love songs, but sometimes it’s okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love. – Maren Morris
10. Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that’s lasting. – George Benson
11. I think I drift toward sad love songs. – Benmont Tench
12. I feel like sometimes when I’m singing a song like ‘Moment of Forever,’ that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I’ve written work on that level, like ‘Help Me Make It Through the Night.’ – Kris Kristofferson
13. My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grand momma, my momma, and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. – Josh Turner
14. Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full body aerobic way. – Daniel Levitin
15. The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they’ve heard the stereotypical life or death songs millions of times. It’s good to mix it up a little bit. – Ed Sheeran
16. I decided at 15 that I didn’t want to be one of those artists that get up and sings love songs they don’t mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I’ve had, things I’ve been through, and even the stuff I’m embarrassed about. – Pink
17. Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can’t find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night. – Delilah
18. I’m extremely happy, but I don’t do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that’s such a personal thing to me. I’d rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that. – Carrie Underwood
19. I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that. – Curtis Jackson
20. My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don’t really have the big radio hit choruses because basically, they’re my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest. – Ed Sheeran
21. To me, the best love songs work on two, maybe three different levels. Where you’re talking about the person who you’re right opposite and all the people like that. – Kris Kristofferson
22. All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros, they’re all love songs. They’re about giving your heart to a person. It’s a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that’s something that I’m very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love. – Camila Cabello
23. I know what works for me – those wonderful sad love songs. – Toni Braxton
24. I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, and Mika. – Adele
25. Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love, love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it’s nice that other perspectives are coming back. – Maren Morris
26. I think that I write about stuff that others don’t write about. I don’t have a bunch of love songs because I don’t really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life. – Brie Larson
27. I like ‘love’ songs, however cheesy that might sound. – Armaan Malik
28. I like to sing love songs. – Doris Day
29. In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing. – St. Lucia
30. I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they’re relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships. – Josh Turner
31. I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a lot of love songs. – Adnan Sami
32. My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs. – Christine McVie
33. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music, no matter if it’s hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it’s rock n’ roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song and if it’s a smash, then I’ll love the different wordplay, and different melodies. That’s what I’m a fan of great music. – Nayvadius Cash
34. I don’t know why, but I don’t fancy writing love songs; I never have. – Lukas Forchhammer
35. Some of the best songs are love songs. They’re things that we all go through, and when we’re going through it, we think that we’re the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you’re not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan. – Shura
36. Politics are always involved, even in my love songs. – Lydia Lunch
37. I can speak for most songwriters, those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. – Lucinda Williams
38. Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, ‘How does it feel?’ And that always leads to love songs. It just does. – Anita Baker
39. I didn’t want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs. – Richard Marx
40. I think ‘Lovin’ Feelin’ was probably one of the most – probably in ’64 and ’65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and ‘Lovin’ Feelin’ was just a strong, powerful song. – Bill Medley
41. I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. – Jasmine Guy
42. I hadn’t played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I’m writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about, dancing and trancing, love, and love’s setbacks. – Nicholson Baker
43. I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn’t play no blues, we’d play a lot of love songs: ‘Stardust’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Out Cold Again’, ‘Sophisticated Lady’, ‘Stars Fell on Alabama’, and a lot of different stuff. – David Edwards
44. So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. – Billy Bragg
45. I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It’s usually funnier that way, anyway. – Cass McCombs
46. But, in the end, even a song that’s as politically bland as ‘Blowin in the Wind’, you probably wouldn’t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say ‘Girl from the North Country,’ you can still get up and play now. – Billy Bragg
47. People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs. – Ray Stevens
48. That’s why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they’re just about feelings that don’t change. They are love songs, they are not specific, and those kinds of feelings don’t change. – Diana Krall
49. Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs. – Nolan Sotillo
50. See, I’m a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I’m totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that. – Blake Anderson
51. Some people come to our shows and think they’re gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they’re pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. – Bobby Hatfield
52. Since I was growing up, I liked love songs, Smokey Robinson, and Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing. – Gregory Isaacs
53. I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me. – Savage Garden
54. Bob Marley was one of my favorite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too. – Gregory Isaacs
55. And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while, ‘cause you’re amazing, just the way you are. – Bruno Mars
56. Look at the stars, look how they shine for you and everything you do, like they were all yellow. – Coldplay
57. ‘Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections. – John Legend
58. Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover. Something in the way she woos me. – The Beatles
59. ‘Cause, honey your soul could never grow old, it’s evergreen and, baby, your smile’s forever in my mind and memory. – Ed Sheeran
60. I’ll be better when I’m older. I’ll be the greatest fan of your life. – Edwin McCain
61. And I can’t help but stare, ‘cause I see truth somewhere in your eyes. – Justin Timberlake
62. You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you’re still the one I want for life. – Shania Twain
63. Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn’t see. – Bon Jovi
64. I’d never lived before your love, I’d never felt before your touch, and I never needed anyone to make me feel alive, but then again, I wasn’t really living. – Kelly Clarkson
65. When you need some shelter from the rain, when you need a healer for your pain, I will be there time and time again. – Leona Lewis
66. I may not have the softest touch. I may not say the words as such. And though, I may not look like much, I’m yours. – The Script
67. Baby, you’re all that I want when you’re lying here in my arms, I’m finding it hard to believe we’re in heaven. – Bryan Adams
68. Heaven is a place on earth with you. – Lana Del Rey
69. Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I was loved by you. – Celine Dion
70. Remember those walls I built? Well, baby, they’re tumbling down and they didn’t even put up a fight, they didn’t even make a sound. – Beyonce
71. Close your eyes, let me tell you all the reasons why, think you’re one of a kind. Here’s to you, the one that always pulls us through, always do what you gotta do. You’re one of a kind. Thank God you’re mine. – Michael Buble
72. God gave me you for the ups and downs. God gave me you for the days of doubt. – Blake Shelton
73. And if you want to cry, I am here to dry your eyes and in no time, you’ll be fine. – Sade
74. I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world. – Elton John
75. And I’d give up forever to touch you, ‘cause I know that you feel me somehow. You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be and I don’t wanna go home right now. – Goo Goo Dolls
76. I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight, if it’s wrong to love you then my heart just won’t let me be right. – Mariah Carey
77. I could make you happy, make your dreams come true. Nothing that I wouldn’t do. Go to the ends of the earth for you to make you feel my love. – Bob Dylan
78. And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find. – Jason Mraz
79. All your insecurities, all the dirty laundry never made me blink one time. – Katy Perry
80. This love is difficult, but it’s real. – Taylor Swift
81. Sun lights up the day time. Moon lights up the night. I light up when you call my name. And you know I’m gonna treat you right. – Peggy Lee
82. Those fingers in my hair. That sly come hither stare. That strips my conscience bare. It’s witchcraft. – Frank Sinatra
83. I feel wonderful because I see, the love light in your eyes. – Eric Clapton
84. I don’t know how you do what you do. I’m so in love with you. It just keeps getting better. I want to spend the rest of my life, with you by my side forever and ever. – Lonestar
85. I love to love you, baby. When you’re laying so close to me, there’s no place I’d rather you be than with me. – Donna Summer
86. You are the light that’s leading me to the place. Where I find peace again. You are the strength that keeps me walking. You are the hope that keeps me trusting. You are the life to my soul. You are my purpose. You’re everything. – Lifehouse
87. It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside. I’m not one of those who can easily hide. I don’t have much money, but boy if I did, I’d buy a big house where we both could live. – Elton John
88. Some try to hand me money, they don’t understand, I’m not broke I’m just a broken-hearted man. I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do. How can I move on when I’m still in love with you? – The Script
89. Oh, my love, my darling, I’ve hungered, hungered for your touch. A long, lonely time. – The Righteous Brothers
90. Come away with me and we’ll kiss on a mountaintop. Come away with me and I’ll never stop loving you. And I want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof. While I’m safe there in your arms, so all I ask is for you to come away with me in the night. Come away with me. – Norah Jones
91. Love me like you loved me when you loved me. And you didn’t have to try. Let’s lay down tonight and kiss tomorrow goodbye. – Luke Bryan
92. Love is all you need. – The Beatles
93. I’m lookin’ for a place. I’m searchin’ for a face. Is anybody here I know? ‘Cause nothin’s goin right, and everything’s a mess. And no one likes to be alone. – Avril Lavigne
94. You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be. – GooGoo Dolls
95. Will you stand by me? Hold on and never let me go. Will you stand by me? With you, I know I belong, when the story gets told. – Shayne Ward
96. I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs. – Bonnie Tyler
97. My parents’ example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you’re being cheesy, because they’re coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they’re a huge influence on my songwriting. – Brett Young
98. I’ve been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that. – J. Tillman
99. I grew up in a household in which they’d always play old school classic R&B love songs: Al Green, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye. And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she’d put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me. – Jeremih
100. I could stay awake just to hear you breathing. Watch you smile while you are sleeping. While you’re far away and dreaming. I could spend my life in this sweet surrender. I could stay lost in this moment forever, where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure. – Aerosmith
101. Our love is like a song, but you won’t sing along. – Demi Lovato
102. Watching, I keep waiting still anticipating love. Never hesitating to become the fated ones. Turning and returning to some secret place to hide. Watching in slow motion as you turn to me and say, ‘Take my breath away.’ – Berlin
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103. The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall, you say it best when you say nothing at all. – Ronan Keating
104. You’re still the one. You’re still the one I run to. The one that I belong to. You’re still the one I want for life. You’re still the one. You’re still the one I love. The only one I dream of. You’re still the one I kiss good night. – Shania Twain
105. If tomorrow is judgment day and I’m standing on the front line. And the Lord asks me what I did with my life, I will say I spent it with you. – Whitney Houston
106. I don’t need a lot of things, I can get by with nothing of all the blessings life can bring, I’ve always needed something. But I’ve got all I want, when it comes to loving you. You’re my only reason. You’re my only truth. – Leann Rimes
107. I love you, is all that you can’t say. Years gone by and still, words don’t come easily, like I love you, I love you. But you can say baby, baby can I hold you tonight. Maybe if I told you the right words at the right time, you’d be mine. – Tracy Chapman
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