“.. 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.” HumansReasonLanguageSoundCommunityLove IsPoetSelf LoveSingingBirdAnd Love Author:Sharon Olds
“Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.” PeopleWellsSocialCommunitySingingQueensContributionCivics Author:Aretha Franklin
“Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.” WayArtTogetherCultureCommunityExistenceQualityMusic IsSingingBuiltOrganizationBasesMusicalEntertainmentAll TimeDevelopingDietsCooperationReverenceCandyAmusementCocktailsArt MusicPlace In LifeSinging TogetherChoral Music Author:Edgard Varese
“The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.” PeopleWantPlayWholeHomeTogetherCommunityCitizensFitSingingInstrumentsTraditionalSeniorNursingGet TogetherHipsterSenior CitizenUkuleleHawaiiansNursing HomeHulaStrumming Author:Jake Shimabukuro
“Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.” PeopleStatesProblemCommunitySingingResourcesHarmonyLocalsPeacefulSegregation Author:Richard Benjamin
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.” PeopleHas BeensSongCommunityJusticeLeaderStruggleLandBrotherEssentialsSingingCloudsTheologyWitnessInvitesThronesEgyptSermonsMosesLiturgyClarifying Author:Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
“Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.” LiteratureCommunityExistenceSingingMagnificentFidelitySentient Beings Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.” WorldYoungCommunityCitiesNew YorkSingingEnglandIsraelProfessionSingersBarsNew York CitySopranosSynagogueJewish CommunityBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.” PeopleAgeSchoolYoungArtistLanguageParentCommunityActingGrowing UpGrowingSingingDancingYoung AgeUpbringingWalesOratoryWelshSinging And ActingSchools And Community Author:Iwan Rheon