Holly Near Quotes

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

We are all fools in love.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?