“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women
Bat out of Hell (1977), Paradise by the Dashboard Light
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women
“So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Interviewed by Cathay Che, The Advocate (8 May 2001)
Context: The message I got from my record label at the time — and this was on purpose — was that I wasn't selling enough. Even when the single was a hit, it wasn't enough of a hit — I never got to number 1; I only got to number 5. And MTV didn't like the first video for the song, and we had to do another one. So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"
AJ Tracey (1994) British rapper from London
On his uneasiness with being called a grime rapper in “AJ Tracey: ‘I had to do everything on my own’” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/27/aj-tracey-ladbroke-grove-rapper-interview-corbyn-boris-johnson in The Guardian (2019 Oct 27)
“Now it cuts like a knife,
But it feels so right.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Cuts Like a Knife
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 339.
“I felt so good, like anything was possible.
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Runnin' Down a Dream
Lyrics, Full Moon Fever (1989)