A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
Marilyn Penland

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs…. because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
Rabindranath Tagore

He who sings frightens away his ills. Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don’t criticize What you can’t understand

Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to.

You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.

Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not sad, Sing, Sing a song, Make it simple, To last your whole life long, Don’t worry that it’s not good enough, For anyone else to hear, Sing, Sing a song.

I’m not up there singing, ‘Hit me baby, one more time!’ We’re a lot more mature than that.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Proverb

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

I’ve had singing lessons and plan to show off.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William James

I love singing and I’d be thrilled if my album did well.

Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, can’t you tell? – when asked if she had ever studied acting or singing

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats.
Woody Allen

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don’t want you singing at my funeral.

I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!
William Shakespeare

To relax myself and my assistants, as well as making a few dance movements, I also do a little singing.

I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow

I felt I’d given more pleasure to many more people and had more fun myself singing my own interpretations of songs.

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore

Young singers ask me, “Do I have to live in New York?” I say, “You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York.”

As long as we live, there is never enough singing.
Martin Luther

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

It’s all very well Eminem going on about Detroit. You have to be a bit braver to go around singing the praises of Lowestoft!

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.
Esther Broner

I feel privileged to have succeeded in this tough industry and to have had the singing career that I’ve had.

Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time

‘I don’t use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.’

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree’s to leaf itself in April.
Alexander Smith

I don’t want to be just a straight pop singer. I’m a vocalist and that’s what I want to be seen as in the long run.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.
Edmund Clarence Stedman

I always wanted to be a singer, it’s what I wanted to do since I was little. I’m doing it now and I couldn’t be happier.

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.
Joan Baez

I’ve always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Life is a song. Love is the music.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose F. Kennedy

And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury.

I sing like I feel.
Ella Fitzgerald

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there’s a million ways to be, you know that there are…

The lively Shadow-World of Song.
Johann Christoph

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Little dew-drops of celestial melody.
Thomas Carlyle

Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts

That which is not worth speaking they sing. Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d’etre dit, on le chante.