Singing Quotes

• A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

  Clay Aiken

  Song, Pain, Soul

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.23, Random House

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Song, Air, House

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• If I cannot fly, let me sing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Let Me, Ifs

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  The only thing better than singing is more singing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Birthday, Music

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• As long as we live there is never enough singing.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Long, Enough

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Isaiah”

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

  Cole Porter

  Passion, Blue, Knows

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• Captive people have a need for song.

  Michelle Cliff

  Song, People, Needs

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• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Bird, Storm

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• To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

  Maria Callas

  Expression, Voice, Becoming

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• I caught the happy virus last night
  When I was out singing beneath the stars.
  It is remarkably contagious -
  So kiss me.

  Hafez

  Stars, Kissing, Night

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• Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

  Edith Piaf

  Escaping, World, Earth

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• Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

  Janis Joplin

  Love, Music, Emotional

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• God sent his Singers upon earth
  With songs of sadness and of mirth,
  That they might touch the hearts of men,
  And bring them back to heaven again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Heart, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.138

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Expression, Voice

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Music, Voice, Firsts

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  May, Opera, Singers

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• He who sings frightens away his ills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Music

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.7

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• I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

  Celine Dion

  Beautiful, Cheer, Hug

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• If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Air, Bhajans, Community

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• Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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