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Quotes About Singing

When Senta started singing it was spellbinding—Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
In classical Sanskrit poetry, the laughter of women is responsible for the blooming of plants, which is why women were invited to the royal gardens in spring to sing and dance and play.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me
~ Diana Ross
He thought of history moving backward…why did it haunt him? What was he supposed to do? Just know it was there? Just be a witness? The earth plummeted across the sky. The ancestor, the extinct ones, were singing with the wind, some off-key.
~ Diane Glancy
I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.
~ Diane Hammond
I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.
~ Dierks Bentley
It is the voice of the church that is heard in singing together. It is not I who sing, but the church. However, as a member of the church, I may share in its song. Thus all true singing together must serve to widen our spiritual horizon. It must enable us to recognize our small community as a member of the great Christian church [Christenheit] on earth and must help us willingly and joyfully to take our place in the song of the church with our singing, be it feeble or good. God's
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The purity of unison singing, unaffected by alien motives of musical techniques, the clarity, unspoiled by the attempt to give musical art an autonomy of its own apart from the words, the simplicity and frugality, the humaneness and warmth of this way of singing is the essence of all congregational singing. This
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Singing together [das gemeinsame Lied] joins the praying of the Psalms and the reading of the Scriptures. In this, the voice of the church is heard in praise, thanksgiving, and intercession.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I woke up to singing and found myself singing too
~ Don Piper
My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.
~ Celia Cruz
I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.
~ Yip Harburg
I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
~ Billie Holiday
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.
~ Ma Rainey
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
~ Sharon Jones
I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!
~ The Weeknd
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
~ Kelly Clarkson
And after, when it was bedtime, I would sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes we do. We love you, Conrad, and we'll be true" into the bathroom mirror with a mouthful of toothpaste. I would sing my eight-nine-ten-year-old heart out. But I wasn't singing to Conrad Birdie. I was singing to my Conrad. Conrad Beck Fisher, the boy of my preteen dreams.
~ Jenny Han
Sing it just once for me," I prompt. Peter gives me a look. "Please? I love it when you sing. Your voice is so clean." He can't help but smile. Peter never met a compliment he didn't smile at.
~ Jenny Han
You really do have a pretty voice, Peter. You never should've quit chorus." "The only reason I ever took chorus is because all the girls were in chorus." "Well, then forget about joining a chorus at UVA. No a cappella groups either.
~ Jenny Han
Belly's gonna cry," Steven said in a singsong voice. Then he and Jeremiah started to dance a jig together. "Leave her alone," Conrad said.
~ Jenny Han
We should sing as we speak. I feel almost all vocal problems can be solved by shaping the singing technique to conform to the speaking technique. Singing is simply sustained speech.
~ Jerome Hines
I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.
~ Jesse Plemons