Dancing Quote by William Shakespeare

“I will play the swan. And die in music.”

— William Shakespeare

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

— Suzanne Collins

The music is a continuing thing.

— Stanley Donwood

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her…

— Phineas Fletcher

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They…

— Heinrich Heine

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

— Martial

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang…

— Orlando Gibbons

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

— Sholom Aleichem

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

“Music is like a journey that never ends”

— Dwayne Oneal