Singing Quotes

2240 Singing quotes by 1527 unique authors

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark… — Barbara Jordan
The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill… — Cecilia Bartoli
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not… — Horace
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face. — John Fletcher
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage… — Charles Dudley Warner
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality. — Sara Teasdale
We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as… — Bob Dylan
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing. — John Cage
The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're… — Keith Richards
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. — William Blake
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign… — H. L. Mencken
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music. — Ned Rorem
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Each bird must sing with his own throat. — Henrik Ibsen
The one who sings, prays twice. — Saint Augustine
O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life. — Unknown Author
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. — Georgia O'Keeffe
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. — Maria Callas
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be proud of. They're… — Paul Robeson
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought… — Thomas Hampson
The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities...the song begins to sing us...I don't know… — Jerzy Grotowski
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the… — Ernest Newman

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