quotations about singing
My favorite thing about singing is the physicality of it. It takes a great deal of strength to sing opera, muscles have to be strong yet fluid. It's a wonderful feeling to pour all your emotions out onto the stage like that.
REBECCA PEDERSEN
"Nationally-honored soprano to sing at BDAC tonight", The Davis Clipper, August 24, 2017
She sang late into the night, till her heart was full.
ANAMIKA MISHRA
VoiceMates
Sing it out as hard as you can
Make 'em hear you from LA to Japan
Don't let 'em bring you down
This is how we do it now
Go and roll them windows down and
Sing, sing, sing, sing
Sing it with your hands in the sky
Light it up like it's the 4th of July
Don't let 'em bring you down
You know what I'm talking 'bout
A little bit louder now
PENTATONIX
"Sing"
Singing is one preparation for heaven.
JOSEPH GURNEY BEVAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
You got me singing
Even tho' the news is bad
You got me singing
The only song I ever had
LEONARD COHEN
"You Got Me Singing"
Sweetest the strain when in the song
The singer has been lost.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
The Poet and the Poem
The blues is knocking on my door
Just like it did once before
Nothing new, just the same old thing
You got me singing the blues again
FATS DOMINO
"Nothing New"
See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.
SARAH OCKLER
Bittersweet
Such a price
The Gods exact for song;
To become what we sing.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"The Strayed Reveller to Ulysses"
Singing is a process of complex, muscles maneuvers and thoughts, requiring the singer to satisfy many technical demands in a sequential, rapid-fire manner. The superior singer accomplishes these astounding and complicated feats, with his vocal muscles, similarly to those feats which a superior gymnast accomplishes, with the muscles of his entire body.
ANTHONY FRISELL
The Baritone Voice: A Personal Guide to Acquiring a Superior Singing Technique
Give me trumpets legato,
Put some saxes with 'em,
Strings pizzacatto and some rhythm.
As long as I'm singing,
Then the world's all right and everything's swingin'
Long as I'm singing my song.
WAYNE NEWTON
"As Long As I'm Singing"
For the love you bring won't mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing, sing
TRAVIS
"Sing", The Invisible Band
I think we should talk about how the voice is a form of authorship, how singing is a form of authorship. That teenage voice tells us a story as much as the words.
ANN POWERS
"Singing Our Lives: When Pop Stars Are Super-Heroines", NPR, August 4, 2017
A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.
CLAY AIKEN
Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
BERNADETTE PETERS
New York Times, September 20, 1985
If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.
NESS KINGSLEY
The Curse of Cackling Meadows
A scientific approach to singing misses the big picture. Although we can look at our vocal cords through a laryngoscope and chart the various formants of acoustical sound, we cannot chart the effects of body, mind, and heart on the voice -- and those things are as much a part of the instrument as are the vocal folds themselves. Because our entire person is our instrument, everything about us -- our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological, and spiritual state of being -- affects the physical and acoustical aspects of singing.
W. STEPHEN SMITH
The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing
Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear.
ALLY CONDIE
Reached
Singing is a basic human expression and singing together in a social situation, is the connection. Singing together transforms us from consumers of music, into active participants.
MARK DVORAK
"Peace and justice the themes for community sing-along", Chicago Tribune, April 20, 2017
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know because the beauty is in the act of doing it, not in what it can lead to.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
FaceBook post, September 17, 2015