quotations about singing
Singing is a personal thing. Our own body makes all of the sound, which is then tempered by our own experiences and personality. When we get up there we make ourselves very vulnerable. That explains why, perhaps even more than other performers, we get really hurt by criticism and rejection.
BRINDLEY SHERRATT
"Singing? I'm still trying to get the hang of it", The Guardian, June 1, 2017
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know because the beauty is in the act of doing it, not in what it can lead to.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
FaceBook post, September 17, 2015
Singing is a basic human expression and singing together in a social situation, is the connection. Singing together transforms us from consumers of music, into active participants.
MARK DVORAK
"Peace and justice the themes for community sing-along", Chicago Tribune, April 20, 2017
Let's sing our way out of this.
ISABEL FRAIRE
attributed, The Development of Musical Theatre: How Musical Theatre Has Developed Through Time
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. ELIOT
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the Vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the Vaseline?' I am an idiot.
ELLEN DEGENERES
My Point ... And I Do Have One
The moon was singing the blues
The stars in the sky harmonized
Singing it too
And I, far below
Was singing low and slow
For you
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
"Blue You"
Sing it for your mama, ay
Sing it for your papa, ay
Sing it for the whole world
Whether boy or girl, for your #1 bae
KO on the beat, okay?
I'm the human 808
Go ahead, come sing it, don't talk
Cause the beat won't stop
No way, way, way, way
PENTATONIX
"Sing"
By the time a soprano hits those lush high notes, her vocal cords are thwacking together 1,000 times per second, transforming a burst of air from her lungs into music powerful enough to shatter glass.
USAMA RASHEED
"Bits 'N' Pieces", The International News, September 1, 2017
Singing is a rough business. Every vocal performance involves hundreds of thousands of micro-collisions in the throat.
USAMA RASHEED
"Bits 'N' Pieces", The International News, September 1, 2017
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS
Le Barbier de Seville
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Wild Goose Chase
O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello