“The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
“The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.”
Keshia Chante (1988) Canadian actor and musician
Inside Entertainment (2008)
“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Singing let's go, the way shall better please.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) singer,Carnatic vocalist
Gopal Gandhi in his book of "A Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches", page=166
About M.S.
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Before "Halloween", Live at Luther College
James Grant Wilson (1832–1914) Union Army general
Preface to Poets & Poetry of Scotland Vol 1 , Blackie & Son , Edinburgh 1876
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Linda Ronstadt (1946) American pop singer
On how she still sings in her head since retiring from music due to having Parkinson’s disease in “Linda Ronstadt Talks Illness, ‘Trio’ Album in Candid ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Interview” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/linda-ronstadt-cbs-sunday-morning-interview-789524/ in Rolling Stone (2019 Feb 4)