SINGING QUOTES
quotations about singing
They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out.
DAVID STENN
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
Singing is a beautiful art, don't make it ugly.
TONY BENNETT
"Tony Bennett: I left my heart all over the world, not just San Francisco!", The Sunday Post, August 4, 2017
God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Singers
I'm singing in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
ARTHUR FREED
"Singin' in the Rain"
If I cannot fly,
Let me sing.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sweeney Todd
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
LAUREN MYRACLE
Shine
Singing is a natural outgrowth of time spent in revelry.
ADAM REINWALD
"Like singing? Like beer? St. Paul's own Beer Choir is brewing", Twin Cities Pioneer Press, December 22, 2017
Singing is a way of expressing huge heightened emotions. A song conveys feelings so big that the character can't just say it; he has to sing.
PAMELIA S. PHILLIPS
Singing For Dummies
As long as I'm singing,
There's a bell up in my brain that's ringing,
Makin' a crazy 'ding dong'.
And if this band don't desert me,
Then there's nothin' in the world can hurt me,
Long as I'm singing my song.
WAYNE NEWTON
"As Long As I'm Singing"
Singing is one of the most organic forms of humanity.
JOE STEWART
"To hear a soul", Michigan City News-Dispatch, August 31, 2017
And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
ALISON CROGGON
The Naming
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
attributed, Splendors of the Pearl
His tongue is now a stringless instrument.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.
ORSON SQUIRE FOWLER
Memory and Intellectual Improvement
Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
People Magazine Online, July 21, 2006
Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.
MICHAEL GRANT
Lies
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
ANNE LAMOTT
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
To Jane, The Keen Stars were Twinkling
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.
JOE RAPOSO
"Sing"