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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

  Aaliyah

  Inspirational, Dance, Laughing

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• I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

  Mick Jagger

  Stupid, Complaining, Satisfaction

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

  Roberta Flack

  Song, Eye, Hands

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• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

  Lois Lowry

  Nature, Heart, Bird

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Taking Care of Terrific”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Etta James

  Music, Mother, Song

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

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• The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

  Sam Storms

  God, Religious, Learning

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• Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

  Mariah Carey

  Talking, Grace, Saving

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• Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

  Bernadette Peters

  Body, Lessons, Building

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• Singing is the lowest form of communication.

  Homer

  Communication, Form, Lowest

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• There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

  Ethel Waters

  Emotional, People, Outlets

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• I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Birthday, Walking Away

  "Blitzkrieg Bot: Watch Some Robots Cover The Ramones" by Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.

  Mary Travers

  Song, Wind, Jail

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• Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Men, Ducks

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

  John Powell

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Deep Emotions, Tone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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• Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

  Virgil

  Music, Optimism, Existential

  "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.

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  God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

  Whitney Houston

  God, Voice, Singers

  "Whitney Houston: Return of the troubled diva" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, People, Suffering

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

  Saint Augustine

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• Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Wonderful, Feels, Lightheartedness

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Song, Second Best, Trade

  On Everything (1909) "On Song"

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• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Song, Simple, Movement

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.

  Jessye Norman

  Voice, Long, Joy

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