Quotes about singing

„I envision a society without any physical or psychological barriers towards the blind – a barrier-free environment where the blind can walk freely, can travel, can work, think for themselves, and live proud and dignified lives like other citizens. Society thinks that we can only sing sweet songs, only become teachers and telephone operators in the bank. But we can do more. We can dance, we can fire juggle, we can do martial arts, we can become managers and directors of companies. But society is constantly interpreting what we can do and what we can’t. This has to change very soon.“

—  Tiffany Brar Indian Social Activist 1988

As quoted in They Say the Blind Should Not Lead the Blind. She Proves Them Wrong. https://www.thebetterindia.com/40485/tiffany-brar-working-for-blind/ (December 22, 2015) by Ranjini Sivaswamy, The Better India.

„Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„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

92
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

„Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.“

—  William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

„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.