Best song & singing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”

People Song Stuff Enjoy Fronts Stupid Involved Singing Albums Artwork

Author:Frank Ocean

“I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.”

Song Singing

Author:Will Oldham

“Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.”

Writing Soul Might Guy Song White Singing Bottom Guts Bob Dylan Writing Songs Lennon Springsteen

Author:Robin Thicke

“There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.”

Littles Kids Song Walks Singing Train Theme Little Kid

Author:Andy Milonakis

“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”

People Want Writing Stills Song Opportunity Forever Doubt Singing

Author:Adele

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“The way I was singing the songs was jazz”

Way Song Singing Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”

People Believe Littles Made Stills Happens Kids Song I Believe Fronts Singing Ordinary Things Happen Grades All Alone Bursting Ordinary Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.”

People Ifs Writing Important Facts Song Imagine Style Singing Cracks Twists Shouting Brad Gangnam Style

Author:PSY

“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.”

Knows Firsts Littles Made Important Kids Song Band Singing Little Kid Favorite Bands

Author:Chris Cornell

“I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.”

Knows Reason Shows Guy Song Singing Draws Catering R Kelly

Author:R. Kelly

“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

Song Singing Dancing Incredibles Buzz

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.”

Light Together Song Singing Loud

Book:Freedoms After Fifty

Source: Freedoms After Fifty

“Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long”

Long Song Sky Singing Blue Blue Sky Bluebird

Author:Irving Berlin

“The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.”

Song Singing Winter Brown Preparing Coats Cheerful Sparrows

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!”

People Feels Artist Song Listening Singing

Author:PJ Harvey

“We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.”

Writing Kind Song Voice Calling Singing Tradition Passing Passings Accents Writing Songs Irish Accent

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.”

Song Goes On Singing

Author:Orson Welles

“Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.”

Believe Song Realizing Millions Failing Singing Seeds March Jail Sowing

Author:Pete Seeger

“All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.”

Feels Song Silence Talking Lovers Mountain Singing Mere Oneself

Author:e. e. cummings

“A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.”

Want Years Artist Certain Song Responsibility Band Singing Sticks Solo

Author:Christopher Owens

“If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Song Five Minutes Singing Wine Glasses Cigarette Five Minutes Bothered Wine Glass

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”

Thinking Men Giving Looks Enough Would Be Care Song Behinds Laughing Gone Land Dying Singing Lows Fairs Slave Like Me Dawn Sail Breeze Heed Free Man Sinking Days To Come

Book:The Hairy Ape

Source: The Hairy Ape

“I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.”

Writing Littles Enough Song Attention Learning Singing Throwing Nuts Monkeys

Author:Dolly Parton

“A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.”

Want Able Song Proud Republican Singing Democrat

Book:Pete Seeger in His Own Words

Source: Pete Seeger in His Own Words

“A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.”

Long Doe Country Helping Shows Song Names Deals Singing Hatred Prejudice Deeds Flying These Days Curse Patriotism Bigotry Flags Perpetual Boast Conceit Grievance Narrow Mindedness Singing Songs

Book:Character

Source: Character

“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.”

People Artist Song Ego Singing Opposites Judgement

Author:Romare Bearden

“Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.”

Heart Song Forget Love Is Singing

Book:Buck: A Memoir

Source: Buck: A Memoir

“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing”

Knows Firsts Song Reading Sound Records Kings Lessons Singing Singers Prose Melody Makers Reviews

Author:Black Francis

“I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

Men Might Joy Song Emotion Cry Sorrow Singing Evidence Slavery Slave Casts Islands Contentment Uncommon Desolate Cast Away

Book:Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself

Source: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself

“For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.”

People Remember Song Singing Tired Congas

Author:Gloria Estefan

“A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.”

World Feels Soul Matter Pain Song Singing Carrie Another World Words And Music

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”

Should Moving Song Sides Building Thousand Singing Hundred Died Dancing Nighttime Singing And Dancing

Author:Ryan Adams

“I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .”

Thinking Should Stills Soul Light Spirit Song Hours Sun Fire Feet Ambition Singing Lips Lovely Endless Remembered Touched Womb Corridors

Book:Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.”

Knows Reason Stories Wanted Song Singing Bus Music Business Playing Music Telling Stories Wholeheartedly Billboards Singing Songs

Author:Johnny Reid

“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

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever".”

May Home Song Voice Sin Lord Blood Singing Glory Dear Heavenly Loved Ones Dominion Risen Dear Friend New Songs Heavenly Home

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“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 regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.”

Feels Different Song Acting Emotion Responsibility Roles Materials Involved Singing Regard Jazz Listeners

Author:Peggy Lee

“I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making music. I love inspiring people. I love making great songs that are just really fun. But that's all it usually is for me. I love touring and singing great songs. I don't think I'll ever win a Grammy one day, and I'm totally fine with that. I do work really hard when it comes to acting and I want to do that for a long time.”

People Thinking Want Long Hard Song Winning Fun Acting Fine One Day Music Is Long Time Singing Passionate Actresses Touring Love Making Inspiring Love Grammy

Author:Selena Gomez

“I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.”

Ifs Want Writing Wanted Jobs Song Fashion Singing Good Job Icons Fashion Icon

Author:Ellie Goulding

“It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.”

Age Past Song Singing Insight Sad Song

Author:Judith Viorst

“I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.”

Knows Way I Can Song Singing My Way

Author:Billie Holiday

“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!”

People Ifs Enough Song Asks Drink Singing Drinking Ask Me Drank

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.”

People Problem Song Sports Singing Playing Sports

Author:Stan Lee

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.”

Long Ideas Song Music Singing New Ideas

Author:Holly Near

“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.”

Song Voice Feet Singing Instruments Legs Rhythm Hips Lifts Throat Belly

Book:Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

Source: Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

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