Singing Quotes - Page 20

• I will probably die singing.

  Miriam Makeba

  Dies

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• The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Air, Battle, Manners

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Tired, People

  "iTunes Originals: Gloria Estefan". iTunes Interview, itunes.apple.com. June 6, 2007.

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• I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Moving, Dancing

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• I don't want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. I'm into love, and maybe I'll get more into making love when I'm older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody.

  Justin Bieber

  Sex, Drug, Making Love

  "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Drugs and Turning 18" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 10, 2012.

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .

  Stephen Spender

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.

  Lord Dunsany

  War, Hero, Two

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• Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Horse, Perfect, Riding

  2002 In The Guardian, 7 Jan.

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• If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for.
  Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!

  Justin Vivian Bond

  Smart, Night, Nyc

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• When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

  Amit Ray

  Compassion, Bird, Darkness

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.26, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Heart, Technology, Singers

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• For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Character, Red Lipstick, Important

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• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  Christina Aguilera

  Six Months, Lasts, Sometimes

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• It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Hitting, Upside Down, Easy

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

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• Maybe I should try singing like a man.

  James Blunt

  Men, Trying, Should

  BRIT Awards, 2006.

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• I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

  Harry Chapin

  Band, Bows, Thee

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• Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Hopeless, Glitz, Stills

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• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

  William Dunbar

  Morning, Men, Noble Man

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• I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 22, 2014.

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• I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Voice, Trying, Audience

  "Kathleen Hanna Talks THE PUNK SINGER, How the Documentary Came Together, Reliving Her Journey While Fighting Illness, and Commentary on Miley Cyrus". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 30, 2013.

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• The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

  Johnny Reid

  Song, Playing Music, Stories

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Voice

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Thinking, Way

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

  Michael Jackson

  School, Dancing, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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