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Quotes About Singing

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.
~ Karl Marx
Mrs. Appleyard, in contrast, was thin and sallow and when her husband was out of the apartment Ursula could hear her singing mournfully to herself in a language that she couldn't place. Something Eastern European by the sound of it. How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) And especially these days with so many refugees flooding into London.
~ Kate Atkinson
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.
~ Josh Ritter
And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
~ Toni Morrison
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
~ William Dunbar
Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.
~ Arthur Chapman
But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
~ Jon Lovitz
Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.
~ Kayla Ewell
Maybe I should try singing like a man.
~ James Blunt
Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
~ Billy Joel
It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
~ Eric Clapton
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.
~ Fantasia Barrino
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
~ George Herbert
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
~ Ethel Merman
I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
~ Sam Cooke
I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.
~ Jeremy Renner
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
~ Christina Aguilera
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
~ Mavis Staples
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
~ Charley Pride
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.
~ Joseph Barbera
I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
~ Mary Oliver
I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs
~ Bob Marley
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
~ Toni Braxton