Singing Quotes - Page 37

• O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
  And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
  Singing beside the hedge.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Cheerful, Traveller

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

  D.A. Wallach

  Guy, Trying, Jordan

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

  D.A. Wallach

  Song, People, Justice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Organization, Community

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• For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Coffee, Writing, College

  Interchords Interview, www.danfogelberg.com. 1981.

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• The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Children, Angel, Light

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• You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

  Rick Astley

  Sports, Song, Stars

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

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• I love the fans and they are the reason for my professional existence. When I'm out there doing a show and I see the fans dancing and singing, that's what I love the most. It's just the greatest feeling in the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Dancing, Feelings, Fans

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• I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

  Barbra Streisand

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Long Ago, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people making country music today might not even know that it all started with a midwife. But it's true, it really did. That's where Michael learned to shake it the way he did. It wasn't from old Papa Jackson, I'll tell you that.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Children, People

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• When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

  Andrea Bocelli

  People, Mouths, Orchestra

  "Q&A: On new album, Bocelli celebrates the music of movies". The Associated Press Interview, wtop.com. October 30, 2015.

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• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Goal, Sound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Shy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Diaries

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.

  Richard Benjamin

  People, Community, Peaceful

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Hurt, Crazy

  "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

  Niall Ferguson

  War, Order, People

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovkskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

  Phil Elvrum

  Song, Encounters, World

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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• Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

  B. B. King

  Sadness, Hands, Being Sad

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Community, Literature, Fidelity

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• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Acting, Way, Emotion

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