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Quotes About Song

EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.
~ Simon Armitage
Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will not last long, because, just as my song relents, love rarely stays when it descends on children's hearts, but meets its death the way that warmth fades on our breath.
~ Simon Armitage
Love conquers all," murmured Kim. "I heard it in a song, so it must be true.
~ Simon R. Green
We stopped to grab something to eat in a wooden hut of a café that, at one time, had been a brothel. A wandering minstrel came in to sing us a melancholy song. He explained it was about the homeland he had lost and longed for. The emotion was heartfelt.
~ Simon Reeve
La cucaracha, La cucaracha, Ya no puede caminar, porque no tiene, porque le falta, I don't know the rest, la la la la!
~ Simone Elkeles
and I think of the Negro's life and of its mystery. We have no more marks to guide us than the bird in the air or the fish in the water, and in the midst of this uncertainty we live, and some laugh and others sing.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Everyone in heaven cried and stood up when the late Michael Jackson released the Earth Song.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I Love a Lassie.
~ Sir Harry Lauder
Now the sunset breezes shiver,And she's fading down the river,But in England's song foreverShe's the Fighting Téméraire.
~ Sir Henry Newbolt
The lark now leaves his wat'ry nestAnd, climbing, shakes his dewy wings.
~ Sir William Davenant
On a tree by a river a little tomtitSang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sitSinging 'Willow, titwillow, titwillow!'"Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried,"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"With a shake of his poor little head he replied,"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
I have a song to sing, O!Sing me your song, O!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
~ Dorothy Parker
I love to hear the note sing.
~ Joe Sample
You love someone because they sing a song only your heart can understand.
~ L. J. Smith
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
~ Lionel Richie
I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
~ Rainbow Rowell
You say love is just a four letter word.
~ Bob Dylan
Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
~ Jon Bon Jovi