1.
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.
Florence Foster Jenkins
'Though my vocal cords may not have been perfect, no one can deny that I gave it my all.'
2.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Don Rickles
Italians are remarkable individuals, truly. They can rough you up in a backstreet while crooning an aria.
3.
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
Martin Luther
As long as we breathe, the melody never ceases.
4.
Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .
Niall Horan
Our ensemble will never fluctuate, we will perpetually be 5 vocal buffoons.
5.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
Khalil Gibran
How myopic is the sight that values the toil of the ant higher than the chirping of the grasshopper.
6.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
Mary Oliver
I subscribe to benevolence. As well as mischief. Also to vocalization, particularly when singing is not compulsory.
7.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince
All these unmusical, unrhythmic, scantily-clad critics who proclaim my albums are substandard. Why should I grant them any credence?
8.
There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.
Woody Guthrie
9.
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.
Marina Abramovic
10.
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
Zoltan Kodaly
11.
I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.
Billie Holiday
12.
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston
13.
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger
14.
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Carly Simon
15.
To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
Merle Haggard
16.
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
Cole Porter
17.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
18.
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.
Howard Thurman
19.
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
Ralph Ellison
20.
I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.
Stevie Nicks
21.
If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.
Debbie Reynolds
22.
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
J. K. Rowling
23.
She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
Gaston Leroux
24.
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
Leonard Cohen
25.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan
26.
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
Billie Holiday
27.
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.
Diana Krall
28.
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
Simon Cowell
29.
The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities...the song begins to sing us...I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song.
Jerzy Grotowski
30.
Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.
Jeremy Riddle
32.
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
J. K. Rowling
33.
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
Franz Kafka
34.
I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.
Beyonce Knowles
35.
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.
Clement of Alexandria
36.
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
Maria Callas
37.
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
John Milton
38.
We need music," Nico said. "How's your singing?" "Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all." "It's not so easy. We need music." I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.
Rick Riordan
39.
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.
Zoltan Kodaly
40.
Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
Celia Cruz
41.
My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.
Celia Cruz
42.
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
Meat Loaf
43.
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!
Martin Luther
44.
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
45.
Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
Peggy Lee
46.
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly
47.
I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
Lucy Hale
48.
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
Patti Page
49.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
50.
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
Martin Heidegger