Sung Quotes

238 Sung quotes by 210 unique authors

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing.… — Gary Ackerman
I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over… — Jonathan Demme
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed… — Jay Griffiths
Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life. — Lauren Ambrose
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many… — Maureen Forrester
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel
To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all… — Roy Wood
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. — William Shakespeare
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming… — Ellen Key
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want… — Ester Dean
I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was… — Jessica Pare
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. — Tom Wopat
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,… — John Muir
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All… — Dorothy Parker
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides… — Barack Obama
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of… — Hakim
What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it… — Diane Ackerman
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And… — Ozzy Osbourne
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin
'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it,… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle

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