Singing Quotes - Page 4

• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

  Reba McEntire

  Music, Song, Hurt

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

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• All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

  Rumi

  Song, Wall, Vanity

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• it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

  Rosita Forbes

  Sound, Camels, Facts

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

  Woody Allen

  Summer, June, Tree

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wise, Book, Wine

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Way, Actresses

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

  William Blake

  Sweet, Chorus, Merry

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.53, Routledge

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• Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

  Jeremy Riddle

  Song, Fighting, Victory

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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• I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Names, Groups, Lord

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• The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

  John of the Cross

  Song, Holiday, Joy

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• I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

  Willie Nelson

  Cotton, Fields, Cotton Fields

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

  Christopher Walken

  Dog, Couple, Nice

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• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  Larry Wilcox

  Running, Beach, Hiking

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• I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

  Aaliyah

  School, Play, Parent

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• In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

  Lena Horne

  Black, Way, My Own

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

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• It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

  Lena Horne

  Want, Becoming, Broads

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• My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Jobs, Trying

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• They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

  Craig Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Father

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• When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Song, Tunes, Satan

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.35, George Bernard Shaw

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• But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

  Krist Novoselic

  Sight, Songwriting

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Wings, Tears

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 48

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