Sing Quotes - page 2

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. (Billie Holiday)

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Billie Holiday

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Aaliyah

I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

Naomi Watts

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing.

Alexander Pope

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.'

William Makepeace Thackeray

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief's face.

Juvenal

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

Frank McCourt

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Alice Walker

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. (Sarah Vaughan)

Sing, riding 's a joy For me I ride.

Robert Browning

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

Pete Seeger

I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

Luciano Pavarotti

Little Fly, Thy summers play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not like thee Or art not thou A man like Me For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

William Blake

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.

James Russell Lowell

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

Steven Gerrard

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Pablo Picasso

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

Christopher Columbus

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Voltaire

By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

William Collins

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

Sam Shepard

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