Quotes About Singing

The issue of singing hymns versus Psalms split churches, including the one in

Make a joyful shout to the LORD , all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Know that the LORD , He is God. – Psalm 100:1–3

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know, Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go.

We must serve Him with gladness and come into His presence with singing. Commentator Matthew Henry called joy the "oil on the wheels of our obedience.

It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.

It is doubtful if, at any time in her life, anyone had sung directly at Miss Pottinger, and she was flustered in a region of her being from which she had had no messages for many years.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

He felt her cold lips touch his eyes, like coins for Charon. After a time he heard her singing... The song was a piece of forever.

SOON, he replied, which makes better sense under the rules of that country than ours. VERY SOON! he added, clasping my hands; then, unable to keep from laughing, he pushed off from the rock like a boy going for the first cold swim of spring; and the current got him. The stream was singing aloud, and I heard him singing with it until he dropped away over the edge.

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

I thank the dark Virgin, morena like me... There are many who will tell you that the dark-skinned girls, las morenitas, have got no chance. But when Iwas a girl, I noted the Virgen de Guadalupe, her with the important job of taking care of all the pueblitos, and standing in every home with candles and all the respect, and her own day of Guadalupe with people crawling across zócalo and up the cathedral steps on raw knees and singing themselves ronca all night long

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.