Quotes about singing
A collection of quotes on the topic of singing.
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„I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!“
— Hilaire Belloc writer 1870 - 1953
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
Context: To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
Wine, true begetter of all arts that be;
Wine, privilege of the completely free;
Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong;
Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong,
Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!
„When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies… I'm gonna play and dance and sing.“
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross American psychiatrist 1926 - 2004
„I want to paint the way a bird sings.“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
Variant: I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Source: Monet By Himself
„Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.“
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
„He is a great person, as well as a great musician. And this guy sings like he was born down below Mississippi!“
— Eric Clapton English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1945
B.B. King http://www1.gitarrebass.de/magazine/0008/top10.htm
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„I don't sing my mother tongue
No, this is not a love song“
— Till Lindemann German industrial metal musician 1963
"Amerika"
Reise, Reise (2004)
„Life isn't about how popular you are… What girl or boy you are dating or who you know.Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts… and our minds. This is the reason we sing… this is the reason we cry… this is why we live.“
— Andrew Biersack American singer-songwriter 1990
„When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.“
— Sarah Vaughan American jazz singer 1924 - 1990
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
„it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
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95 poems (1958)
Variant: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
„If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.“
— Billie Holiday American jazz singer and songwriter 1915 - 1959
„Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.“
— Harper Lee, book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
„I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.“
— Адам Левин singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States 1979
When asked how he can predict that a song will be a hit.
Scaggs, Austin (2007-05-31), "Adam Levine". Rolling Stone. (1027):36.
„Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?“
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890 - 1995
„He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
„What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.“
— Barbara Sher American writer 1935
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
„All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.“
— Louis Armstrong American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901 - 1971
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
„Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.“
— John Greenleaf Whittier American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery 1807 - 1892
My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Context: Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.