Singing Quotes - Page 5

• Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

  Jay Griffiths

  Empathy, Humanity, Body

  " Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

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• The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

  Pearl Primus

  Life, Dance, Strong

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Real, Heart

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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• Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Children, Reading

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• My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

  Orlando Bloom

  People, Creative, Feelings

  "Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis Interview SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 25, 2011.

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• We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"

  Patrick Stump

  Needs, Wow

  "Patrick Stump, Part 1". AbsolutePunk.net Interview, October 06, 2008.

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• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

  Billie Holiday

  Change, Music, Hate

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• Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

  Steven Tyler

  Laughter, Years, Tears

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• Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

  Eddie Izzard

  Boys, People, Band

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• Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

  Celia Cruz

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• Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.

  Lee Greenwood

  People, Joy, Events

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• I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.

  Peggy Lee

  Learning, Thinking, Silence

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• Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

  Billie Jean King

  Dancing, Ask Me, Asks

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• On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

  Michael Bolton

  Moving, Swimming, People

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• I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

  Rod Stewart

  Bathroom, Coming Out, Ghastly

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• You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

  Jean Houston

  Cells, Ego, Soul

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• If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  Dannie Abse

  Garden, Rose, Tree

  Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage

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• If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

  Richard J. Foster

  Simple, Thinking, Things In Life

  "Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline".

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Exercise, Night

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
  I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Life, Music, God

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Life, Giving Up

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