Quotes about song and singing

"Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so."

Auden, W. H. on song and singing   

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

Baez, Joan on song and singing   

"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Belloc, Hilaire on song and singing   

"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

Browning, Robert on song and singing   

"Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on song and singing   

"The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs."

Etheridge, Melissa on song and singing   

"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."

Franklin, Aretha on song and singing   

"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."

Holiday, Billie on song and singing
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"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."

Horace on song and singing   

"I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five."

Jagger, Mick on song and singing   

"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on song and singing   

"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."

Poe, Edgar Allan on song and singing   

"Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?"

Prior, Matthew on song and singing   

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"He who sings, frightens away all his ills."

Saying, Traditional on song and singing   

"When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them."

Shaw, George Bernard on song and singing   

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

Smith, Alexander on song and singing   

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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

Voltaire on song and singing
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