Quotes About Singing

You know I've always wanted someone to sing to me, but now I know that what I want more is to sing to you.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

The busker glowed with Prime-Time Happiness, and for a few moments, deprivation took a backseat. It had been his dream to sing on the Donahue show, he said, not realizing that he had just been robbed of that too.

Among the maniacs things were more cheerful, a group of them sat by iron beds, playing on the springs like harps and singing in chorus; "We ain't got no ma or pa, 'cause we is au-tom-a-ta," also "Ro, ro, ro your bot, gently down the stream," and so forth.

Baptists: I'm a pious guy, but even I have my limits. I draw the line right around spending 8 hours in church every Sunday. Church should be a solemn 45 minutes to sit quietly and feel guilty, with donuts at the end to make you feel better. I don't go in for a full day of singing and dancing and rejoicing, no matter how nice the hats are. I prefer my Gospel monotonously droned to me from a pulpit, thank you very much.

At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

Then they all began to sing. The tune was "Happy Birthday," but the lyrics had changed. "Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened, dear Jamie, something happened TO YOU!" That was when I began to scream.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out) ' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Wilberforce was greatly renowned for his singing voice and came to be known as the "Nightingale of Commons"—probably not only for the remarkable quality of his voice but for the hours at which he sang.

when his father was an adolescent in Hull, his "talents for general society with his rare skill in singing rendered him everywhere an acceptable guest, and his time was wasted in a round of visits to the neighbouring gentry.

At the threshold of the divine, how to know But indirectly, to hear the static as Pattern, to hear the rough-edged white noise as song— Wait, not as song—but to intuit the songbird, Within the thorn thicket, safe, hidden there. Every moment is not a time for song or singing. — Eric Pankey, from "Ash," Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.

Unless you have singing in the family and singing in the house, singing everywhere, until it becomes a habit, you never can have congregational singing; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of rock, one drop here and another there; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

If I know all the words to a song -- or even if I know just two of them -- I will sing those as loud as possible. And my wife is like, 'Could you please stop that?' Because I sing really loud. It's not like I'm in the corner going 'la la la la la.' I'm f---ing going crazy, you know? Spit is flying all over the windshield and on the steering wheel and all that good stuff.

I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.

I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.