Sang Quotes

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry van Dyke)
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.' View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. View quote
Barry McGuire
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down. View quote
Ethel Waters
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. View quote
Lorna Luft
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. View quote
Nancy Sinatra
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. View quote
Paul Lynde
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. View quote
Wanda Jackson
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out. (Nat King Cole)
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land. View quote
Miriam Makeba
She sang beyond the genius of the sea. View quote
Wallace Stevens
O thrush, your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung, Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear Love and I were young. View quote
William Morris
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'. View quote
Val Kilmer
I can be. I do not normally try to be. In fact, there have been some reviews-which I've loved-that said I didn't try to sell my show on sex, that I sang my show. On the other hand, I know I'm cute. I can dance. I don't have a bad figure. I know exactly what I am. I'm certainly no great beauty. I know exactly how far I can go. View quote
Stevie Nicks
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me. View quote
George Santayana
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. View quote
Van Morrison
If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God. View quote
Jerry Falwell
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. (Thomas Browne)
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly. View quote
Tarkan
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. View quote
Peter Weiss