Singing Songs Quotes

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  The only thing better than singing is more singing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Birthday, Music

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• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Music, Voice, Liquid

  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, Singing

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

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• When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Song, Singing, Tunes

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.35, George Bernard Shaw

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• It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

  Joan Baez

  Music, Song, Memorable

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

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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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• He who sings frightens away his ills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Music

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.7

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• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Song, Thinking

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 14 (1845)

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Night, Years

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

  E. M. Broner

  Vocal Music, Chords, Persons

  E. M. Broner (1982). “A weave of women”

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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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• It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Song, Singing, Second Best

  On Everything (1909) "On Song"

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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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• When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Children, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Years, Singing

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Song, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Song, Waiting

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Song, Past

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

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• I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it. ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.

  Dierks Bentley

  Mom, Song, Dad

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• Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Men, Ducks

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Father, Singing

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• When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Song, Sex

  "Exit Interview: Joan Jett". Interview with Richard Rys, www.phillymag.com. June 20, 2007.

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• It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Song, Fun, Singing

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

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• I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Writing, Character

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