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Quotes About Singing

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
~ Beverly Sills
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
~ Anna Camp
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
~ Diane Paulus
At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.
~ Aaron Neville
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
~ Anna Camp
You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].
~ Kristin Chenoweth
I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.
~ Tweet
Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
~ William Dean Howells
Studsy returned alone. Maybe I'm wrong, he said as he sat down, but I think somebody could do something with that cluck if they took hold of her right. Morelli said: By the throat. Studsy grinned good-naturedly. No. She's trying to get somewhere. She works hard at her singing lessons and -
~ Dashiell Hammett
There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything—an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion—but I know well enough that it is awe.
~ Dave Eggers
Zuzuki-roshi] I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.
~ Unknown
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...
~ David Foster Wallace
My wife says you have been singing like an angel,' he said to Becky. Now there are angels of two kinds, and both sorts, it is said, are charming in their way.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.
~ William Saroyan
In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—
~ William Shakespeare
Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty- eight.
~ William Shakespeare
while Sachs was also a liberal, he did not enjoy accompanying her to hear folk singing.
~ Woody Allen
November 1998 - They were singing. They were drunk. They were happy. That was what Olivia recalled most, afterwards. How happy her friends had been
~ Unknown
Hilary says to her sister, "You can't eat only pie for lunch." "Just watch me." Lily plucks her ukulele out of the tote bag at her feet and strums it, singing, "Pie is fine. It's very nice/ Especially with lots of spice/ Like cinnamon and ginger too/ My sis would like it, but she's a poo." "Oh, well, that's brilliant," Hilary says. "Taylor Swift must be looking over her shoulder.
~ Claire LaZebnik
Happiness is singing together when day is through, and happiness is those who sing with you. Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too...for happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.
~ Unknown
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
~ Clay Aiken
Like all cars with different engines that you see around you, music is the fuel of life. Singing is the alternator whenever you drive. Breathing is for the gas that you are refilling if you want to keep on going.
~ Unknown
And so, although I have no lyre, I sing: For there is a desire, within me - a self-taught hymn
~ Heraclitus