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“If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.”

Ifs Heard Singing Like Me Heartbeat

Author:Amy Winehouse

“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!”

“How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?”

Voice Heard Air Worship Singing Notes Creator Hills Sole Midnight Celestial Steep Thickets

Book:Paradis perdu: de Milton

Source: Paradis perdu: de Milton

“Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine”

Heard Singing Bird Stones Paris Sugar Perfume Lanes Charlotte Haze Guillotine

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.”

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Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.”

“When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.”

May Light Heaven Stars Sound Heard Singing Angel Ears Raised Rounds Anthem Bright Star

Author:Owen Feltham

“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Young Song Heard Brother Singing First Time Brothers And Sisters Young Brother

Author:Adam Levine

“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!”

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.”

Thinking Heard Singing Appropriate Sentiments Vocal Heartfelt Interpreter Most Inspiring

Author:Brandi Carlile

“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Bits Records Heard Beats Singing Hip Hop Hips Range Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.”

Firsts Matter Happened Heard Singing Great Power Portugal Wheelchairs

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”

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Author:Joscelyn Godwin

“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.”

Said School Girl House Heard Mom Singing My Mom Doing You

Author:Chris Brown

“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.”

People Soul Morning Heard Air Sweet Summer Singing Harmony Filled My Soul Sunday Coal Choir Porch Stoves Sunday Morning Parlor Lilac

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.”

Writing Firsts Long Wanted Song Found Easy My Own Written Heard Singing Folks Radio Melody Jimmy Integrating Writing Songs

Author:Mickey Newbury

“Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!”

Thinking School My Own Heard Singing High School Mum Sony Private Things

Author:Brooke Fraser

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."”

Knows Firsts Heard Like You Singing Okay Berries I Like You Harmonicas

Author:Stevie Wonder

“My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.”

Home School Heard Stage Singing Grandmother Uncles My Grandmother Juniors Junior High Singing The Blues

Author:Mavis Staples

“I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.”

Wells Said House Stuff Party Pay Heard Singing Yeah Guitar Hey Throwing Bucks Fraternity Hay Guitar Playing Sorority

Author:Chris Isaak

“Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.”

Different Age Natural Growing Up Growing Heard Singing Harmony Different Music

Author:Petra Haden

“Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.”

People Knows Heart I Can Important Reason Eye Lasts Song Lord Forever Heard My Heart Battle Singing Glory Seasons Raised Republic Jane Hymns

Author:Baron Vaughn

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.”

“I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.”

Firsts Heard Cry Baby Singing First Time Singers

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.”

Thinking Poetry Heard Loneliness Singing Mermaid Trousers Flannels

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”

People Thinking Song Realizing Music Heard Singing Idiot Wipe Lanes Right Words Fast Lane Vaseline

Book:My Point...And I Do Have One

Source: My Point...And I Do Have One

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”

Mind Song Heard Singing Fragments Geisha Memories Of A Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).”

Children Father Heard Tree Spring Singing Moved Leafs

Book:Dienstags bei Morrie: Die Lehre eines Lebens

Source: Dienstags bei Morrie: Die Lehre eines Lebens

“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”

May Stills Stars Voice Walks Half Wise Heard Land Kings Mountain Singing Daughter Shadow Woods Tongue Graves Bitter Awake Ireland Godly Crafty Mountain Top Voice Singing

Book:The Land of Heart's Desire

Source: The Land of Heart's Desire

“I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.”

Book Left Rooms Heard Singing Gloom

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”

“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.”

Way Song Felt Grief Darkness Heard Terrible Singing Phoenix Lament

Author:J. K. Rowling

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”

People Firsts Left Space Behinds Heard Singing First Time Distance Life Changing Echoes Time And Space Giver

Book:The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus

“I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

World Humans Soul Young Turns Sleep Known Heard Blood Singing Built Flow Rivers Raised Ancient Golden My Soul Dawn Sunset Veins New Orleans Bosoms Congo Pyramids Mississippi Muddy Huts Abe Nile

Author:Langston Hughes

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

Life Firsts Two Found Voice Cities Novel Heard Pages Singing Standards First Time Tales Trough Tale Of Two Cities I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”

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Book:The Thorn Birds

Source: The Thorn Birds

“From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.”

Men Song Boys Heard Battle Singing Stones

Book:The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. “If this was a movie, there would be some music playing in the background.” “I could sing,” Della chuckled. “And ruin it,” Kylie teased back. “I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Bits Laughing Heard Grew Couple Kissing Singing Yeah Lips Backgrounds Ruins Pairs Wow Showers Grinning Singing In The Shower

Book:Awake at Dawn

Source: Awake at Dawn

“Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.”

Spirit Stars Space Heard Havens Singing Peaceful Dragons Spheres

Book:The Iron Man

Source: The Iron Man

“From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.”

World Moments Song Sleep Existence Heard Singing Ears Rose Forgotten Smell Breathing Remembered Brown Waking Stem Leafs Bud Barren Virginity Flutes Snowy

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.”

Knows Said Sometimes Dream Eye Lasts Faces Song Heard Tears Singing Corners Throat Her Eyes Pillow Linen

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.”

May Together Song Voice Church Heard Share Members Worship Singing Singing Together

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”

“And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.”

Soul Hard Inspiration Secret Silence Heard Listening Singing Tasks Ears Praise Addiction Hearing Invisible My Soul Revealing Hymns Choir Tumult Firmament Choir Singing

Author:Khalil Gibran