"If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse."

Sutherland, Joan on opera   

"The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

Berne, Eric on worry
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"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."

Carey, Mariah on music   

"I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck."

Duritz, Adam on greatness   

"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."

Picasso, Pablo on color
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"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

Gibran, Kahlil on freedom
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"Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose."

Unknown, Source on attitude
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"If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing."

Holiday, Billie on drugs
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"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings."

Gardner, Edward on music   

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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