„I don't sing my mother tongue
No, this is not a love song“
— Till Lindemann German industrial metal musician 1963
Reise, Reise (2004), "Amerika"
Quotes about singing
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„I don't sing my mother tongue
„Her mouth is a honey-blossom,
No doubt, as the poet sings;
But within her lips, the petals,
Lurks a cruel bee that stings.“
— William Dean Howells author, critic and playwright from the United States 1837 - 1920
The Sarcastic Fair
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„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
About, B.B. King http://www1.gitarrebass.de/magazine/0008/top10.htm
„I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.“
— Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977
After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html
„Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.“
— Cher American singer and actress 1946
„The murderer smiles palely in wine,
Death's horror grips the sick.
Excoriated and naked, the nun prays
Before the Savior's agony on the cross.
The mother sings quietly in sleep.
Peacefully the child looks into the night
With eyes that are completely truthful.
In the whorehouse laughter rings.
By candlelight down in the cellar hole
The dead one paints with white hand
A grinning silence on the wall.
The sleeper whispers still.“
— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914
"Romance in the Night"
„I've been living in New York for about seven years and a lot of the people that I started singing with don't sing any more, don't write any more. So the fact that I can still do that that's kind of a gift, that's what I sort of stay focused on.“
— Lana Del Rey American singer-songwriter 1985
Evening Standard (24 January 2012), p. 13
„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
„That's you now, hello, ciao.
Seems that life is great now.
See me lose focus, as I sing to you loud.
I can't, no, I won't hush.
I'll say the words that make you blush.
I'm gonna sing this now.
See, I'm true, my songs are where my heart is.“
— Ed Sheeran English singer-songwriter and producer 1991
Song lyrics, + (2011), You Need Me, I Don't Need You.
„If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?“
— Nick Carter, Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It
„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
