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I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know,…

— Jessye Norman

“Although she missed the singing by the children from the school opposite her apartment, she didn't teach her own pupils to sing 'We Shall…

— Arundhati Roy

“She was heading for the piano, and something told me that it was her intention to sing old folk songs, a pastime to which,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given…

— Franz Kafka

“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last…

— Carson McCullers

“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it…

— Boris Pasternak

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Her voice sounded like a symphony after years of being denied any music”

— Lynn Galli

“Charlotte Yates didn’t especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a…

— Magnus Flyte

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

— Cecilia Bartoli

“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”

— Carson McCullers

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker