Common Quote by Jean Toomer

“I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond…

— Simon Van Booy

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda

“My hands moved up and down the keyboard, summoning great waves of music, each one crested with sorrow, loneliness, and anger. Tides of emotion…

— Sarah Beard

“I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.”

— Margarita Engle

“I sing the song of my heartstrings, alone in the eternal muteness, in the face of God.”

— Yone Noguchi

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

— Mahalia Jackson

“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never…

— André Aciman

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

— Sholom Aleichem

“Music is where I feel loved. Past, present. Music is where I give love. Why do I continue to enter rooms of strangers who…

— Robin Russell Gaiser

If my singing leaves a long-lasting effect in the mind of the listeners, it is the blessing of the Almighty.

— Javed Ali

“There's a story here. A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide ... Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move…

— Nadège Richards

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than…

— Heber J. Grant