“There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!” MenSometimesDoneNightSongHouseWaterDealsHeardSeaDrinkSingingDevilDearWickedChestsBottlesRemarksFear Of DeathShakingNeighbourJoiningDead ManRumDear LifeJoining InWild Sea Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!” PeopleIfsEnoughSongAsksDrinkSingingDrinkingAsk MeDrank Author:Brantley Gilbert
“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.” ThinkingLongWarHateNextBrainDrinkDrugSingingOkayI HateBudDopeWar On DrugsHypocriticalJust Say No Author:Bill Hicks
“Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.” FacesFunCommonWindHairDrinkSingingBirdSensesFuneralUsualIrelandBehaviourRegister Author:Michael Longley
“If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.” IfsChildrenHandsBigsRunningFacesCryDrinkSingingScaryArgentina Author:Roisin Murphy
“Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.” SongFunEnjoyDrinkSingingTeaCatchy Author:Raven-Symone
“I don't think it's something that people would ask a man. Some people make a huge deal out of the fact that I sing about drinking all the time, but I don't think of it as singing about drinking. It's singing about emotions, and sometimes that centers around drinking. To me, I'm writing about things that I'm going through that mean something to me, but some people just reduce it to: "She must drink all the time." But if a guy sings about that sort of thing, no one really looks twice.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingMeanSometimesGuyEmotionDrinkSingingDrinking Author:Lydia Loveless
“I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.” NeedsStillsRoomsDrinkSingingNervousTeaHotelConcertsHoneyCandleLemonsHotel RoomsScented Candles Author:Mary J. Blige
“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.” NamesFlowerDrinkQuietSingingBirdBreathing Author:Rumi
“Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.” IfsWellsSaidStillsForgetRocksFashionLike YouDrinkBeatsSingingArgumentTraditionalDrunkCuriousWinnerDawnInsultPlusLaughedKnivesOffendedInvolvingBarbariansSpears Author:Brandon Sanderson
“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsMindHumansLittlesMadeBodyScienceSpiritDesireAsksHeavenGrowsAnimalSecretKnowledgeGrowing UpDrinkSingingBirdGainsDelightSeekingDietsTouchedHuman MindToilHuman BodyFood And Drink Author:Johannes Kepler
“The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.” MenBookLaughingWiseDrinkSingingWineBeerUrgesUnspokenVineyardsVinoOld WineFine WineFrench WineSinging Dancing Author:Homer