Singing Quotes - Page 29

• On and on eternally
  Shall your altered fluid run,
  Bud and bloom and go to seed;
  But your singing days are done

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Running, Bud, Done

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.187, eBookIt.com

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• So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
  So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
  The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

  Edmund Spenser

  Woods, Answers, Mythology

  Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.420

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• Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
  only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
  only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
  we are real at last
  and wake.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Real, Mirrors

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.169, Knopf

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• I have felt darkness lead me by the hand
  Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

  Allen Tate

  Hands, Darkness, Dawn

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• I said, the poets are there
  I hear them singing and lying
  around their round table
  and around me still.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Poetry, Tables

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• I want to hear the chanting
  Around a heathen fire
  Of a strange black race.

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Race, Fire, Black

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• See the wild birds on the wing,
  Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
  When you feel like singin', sing--
  Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Wings, Bird

  Frank Lebby Stanton, “Keep A-Goin'!”

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• what can we do
  when even the public conveyances
  sing?
  how can we go anywhere,
  even cross-town
  how get out of anywhere

  Charles Olson

  Towns, Crosses

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• Sing
  and your hell is heaven,
  your heaven less hell.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heaven, Hell

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.252, New Directions Publishing

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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• Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
  Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
  And a man makes friends without half trying
  That's where the West begins.

  Arthur Chapman

  Friendship, Happiness, Men

  Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”

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• To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Painful, Climbs

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• I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

  Willie Dixon

  Years, Church, Used

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.

  Jack White

  Song, Character, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

  Robert Plant

  Phrases, Done, May

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, People, Rejection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Heartbreaking, Vulnerable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Expression

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

  Adam Shankman

  Believe, Voice, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Heart, Ideas, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Often Is, Dancing

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I came to singing organically.

  Alice Smith

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• We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

  Patty Andrews

  Fortunate

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• At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.

  Joachim-Ernst Berendt

  Play, Roots, Patterns

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