Singing Quotes - Page 8

• Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.

  Dev Hynes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• .. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

  Sharon Olds

  Love Is, Community, Bird

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• All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Men

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• What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Missing, Church

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• When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

  Ernest Gaines

  Song, People, Church

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• I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

  Bob Seger

  Car, Parent, Said

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• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Writing, People, Would Be

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• If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Way, Feels

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Church, Telling The Truth

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Drama, Drinking, Wine

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.

  Liza Minnelli

  Chiropractic Care, Acting, Shapes

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller."

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Believe, Blessed, Angel

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Song, Growing Up, Rap

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, And Love, Innocent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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• I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Taken, Responsibility, Long

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• I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

  Amanda McBroom

  Writing, Ideas, Rose

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Song, Guitar, Years

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Want

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  Vince Gill

  Fun, Memories, Real

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• The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

  Vince Gill

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  Pat Benatar

  People, Commodity

  "Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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