“ I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. ”
- Victoria de los Angeles- Copy
- 2.8K
“ For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 576
“ She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers — three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace, It sings of love that will not cease, For me it never sings in vain. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces When Malindy sings. ”
- Paul Laurence Dunbar- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play. ”
- Joan Sutherland- Copy
- 2.3K
“ White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
- 3.5K
“ For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. ”
- James Broughton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. ”
- John Mayer- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right! ”
- Glenn Hughes- Copy
- 1.1K
“ God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ His Labor is a Chant — his Idleness — a Tune — oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon! ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 236
“ Love the fellow of the resurrection, scooping up the dust and chanting Live! ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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