Sung Quotes

238 Sung quotes by 210 unique authors

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully… — Evan Parker
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their… — Unknown Author
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung — Pierre Beaumarchais
The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if… — Heber J. Grant
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear… — Beth Gibbons
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all. — Liv Tyler
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not… — Tom G. Palmer
It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If… — Fanny Crosby
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? — Louis Untermeyer
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung. — Charles Lamb
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti… — Mao Zedong
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity. — Wayne Coyne
The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never… — Hugh Dancy
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never… — John Dryden
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. — William Allingham
North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in… — Barbara Demick
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. — James J. Corbett
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to… — Frank Smith
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else… — Barry Gibb
Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done. — Mark Victor Hansen
If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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