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Quotes About Singing

Actually, it's the beauty of independent music that the artist can feature in his own videos and be the face of it. It is unlike Bollywood movies, where one does playback singing.
~ Guru Randhawa
I'd love to be able to sing. I make videos in my car when I'm driving back and forward between Manchester and Essex, and I try my hardest to sing well but it just doesn't work out.
~ Michelle Keegan
Alison went to the Waldorf school, and they had a whole classroom hour devoted to tweeting on those plastic flutes. They also spent a lot of time building birdhouses, singing along to Peter, Paul, and Mary, and making God's eyes out of twigs and yarn. By the second grade, Alison has still barely heard of arithmetic.
~ Unknown
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.
~ Lois Lowry
After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.
~ Unknown
She slowly began to hum her personal favorite,not even realizing when instinctively she began to sing the lyrics:hush,little baby,don't say a word.If that mockingbird don't sing,papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.If that diamond ring don't Do me a favor.Pretend you're that mockingbird and shut up one angry,bloodshot eye glared at her. I was just trying to help Help what? bring down the walls of the hut with your screeching?
~ Unknown
Maybe it'll be a nice dinner, and everyone will sing 'Kumbaya' together.
~ Jim Butcher
Do you know who is the first eternal spaceman of this universe? The first to send his wild wild vibrations to all those cosmic superstations? For the song he always shouts sends the planets flipping out... But I'll tell you before you think me loony that I'm talking about Narada Muni... Singing
~ Joan Didion
Together we will ensure that for as long as we are alive to achieve it, the King's School shall send its singing boys to the cathedral as it has done these four hundred years.
~ Joanna Trollope
I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.
~ Pierce Brosnan
It's what I love to do. I love being busy. I love singing, so I don't really see it as being busy because it's what I love to do.
~ Unknown
Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
~ Vince Gill
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100 0, you will sound flawless.
~ Vince Neil
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~ W. H. Auden
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
~ W. H. Auden
No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~ W. H. Auden
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
~ W. H. Auden
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~ W. H. Auden
Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell. And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording in melodious guile Thy fretful words a little while, Till they shall singing fade in ruth And die a pearly brotherhood; For words alone are certain good: Sing, then, for this is also sooth. -from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd
~ W.B. Yeats
They sang but had not human tune nor words
~ W.B. Yeats
Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' — Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' — Sing 'Booh to you — pooh, pooh to you' — And that's what you should say!
~ Unknown
Invocation" The day hanging by its feet with a hole In its voice And the light running into the sand Here I am once again with my dry mouth At the fountain of thistles Preparing to sing.
~ W.S. Merwin
I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.
~ Jason Mraz