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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• Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

  Gerard Way

  Music, Song, Romance

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• There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Song, Real

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Dream, Song

  Source: www.pretapregnant.com

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

  Mutya Buena

  Mother, Song, Singing

  "Mutya Buena announces Camden album" by Robert Copsey, www.digitalspy.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Wall, Singing

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• There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

  Garet Garrett

  Song, Night, Thinking

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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