quotations about singing
It doesn't matter if your days are long (Sing!)
It doesn't matter if your night's gone wrong (Sing!)
Just clap your hands and stomp your feet and sing it (Whoa, sing!)
It doesn't matter if he let you go (Sing!)
It doesn't matter if she hurt you so (Sing!)
Get up and dance, just feel that beat and sing it (Whoa, sing!)
PENTATONIX
"Sing"
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mosses from an Old Manse
He who sings scares away his woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
JOHN MILTON
Il Penseroso
The whole world is singing my song
But I sing it only to you
The whole world is humming along
I love you, I love you, I do
DORIS DAY
"The Whole World Is Singing My Song"
Me and my baby
Out on the tiles
God awful teeth but
Beautiful smiles
Face in the window
Back of your house
Hey ho my hearties
Who's singing now?
DAVID GRAY
"Who's Singing Now"
The singing hills (mmmmm)
Are singing tonight (mmmmm)
And echoing a song of long ago
The singing hills (mmmmm)
BING CROSBY
"The Singing Hills"
A singer ... is no more than an actor set to music.
KAY STARR
Pop Chronicles
Singing is a powerful tool for self-realization and for nourishment of others. Developing it is a shared responsibility.
MERIBETH A. DAYME
Dynamics of the Singing Voice
Group singing is cheaper than therapy, healthier than drinking and certainly more fun that working out.
STACY HORN
Imperfect Harmony: How Singing With Others Changes Your Life
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
I'm no hero of the faith,
I'm not as strong as I once thought I was
I'm just a shepherd boy,
Singing to a choir of burning lights
CHRIS TOMLIN
"Shepherd Boy"
In proportion as men become civilized their singing advances to perfection, and that which was at first an accent of passion, only becomes at length the result of art.
FRANCOIS JOSEPH FÉTIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
DONOVAN
Rolling Stone, November 9, 1967
Sing it for the boys
Sing it for the girls
Every time that you lose it sing it for the world
Sing it from the heart
Sing it till you're nuts
Sing it out for the ones that'll hate your guts
Sing it for the deaf
Sing it for the blind
Sing about everyone that you left behind
Sing it for the world
Sing it for the world
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
"Sing", Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
I found some shade beneath a willow tree
I fell asleep and started dreaming
That everything created here on earth all had voices singing
Every rock and every blade of grass even the ivy that was clinging
Every leaf and every drop of rain all had voices singing.
It brought the angels down in my dream so clear
Then the Lord sat down so that he could hear
The sea and waves were rushing to the shore
With the joy that they were bringing
A sound so perfect that it made me cry to hear their voices singing.
RICKY SKAGGS
"Voices Singing"
I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don't think my bathtub can hold that many people.
JAROD KINTZ
Who Moved My Choose?
He who sings prays twice.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Singing all day, singing 'bout nothing,
Oh, my, my, my, oh, my, my, my.
JETHRO TULL
"Singing All Day"
Swans sing before they die -- 'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
"On a Volunteer Singer", The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge