Singing Quotes - Page 3

• When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

  Montserrat Caballe

  Music, Singers, Feels

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• The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

  Thia Megia

  Song, Soul, Type

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• If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

  Simon Cowell

  Sight, People, Would Be

  "Reality Check: 'Bikini Girl' Brings Out the Fight in New 'Idol' Judge Kara DioGuardi" by Diane Macedo, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Joy, Force

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Dance, Humor

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• You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Language, Feels, Presentation

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• I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

  Maria von Trapp

  Thinking, Sound And Music, Anything And Everything

  "Fictional character: Maria". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. March 2, 1965.

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• She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Music, Singing Songs, Voice

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Little Masterpieces”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorial Day, Song, Victory

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.

  Anita O'Day

  Contribution, Can Do, I Can

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• So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

  Taylor Swift

  School, Weekend, Hair

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

  Dinah Shore

  Remember, I Can

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• Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Boys, Voice

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Challenges, Would Be

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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• People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Clothes, People, Complaining

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• Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

  John Fletcher

  Music, Faces, Wells

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.548

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• Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Soul, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.525, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Order, People

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• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Memories, Night

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• But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Moving, Fall

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• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Song, Clever, Stupid

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