Sing Quotes
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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.
Ben Lerner
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I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Thank god, I can't sing because that would be a lot of pressure. But yeah, it's nice doing something different and that's something I really feel like is my own passion. It's also connected. Everything is connected in the entertainment business, so I have the support of my parents because they've been through it all before and they can give me advice.
Eve Hewson
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I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.
Nick Fradiani
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I actually do sing sometimes.
Morten Harket A-ha
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Rumi
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I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.
George Michael
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I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
John Stamos
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I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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By turns the nine delight to sing.
Homer
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There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
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Been writing and singing together since we were 15. Hard to put words to how special it is to have Ben on this song with me. And I can’t believe we finally get to share it with everyone!
Pat Barrett
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Sing the song or keep it inside.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
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Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.
Eric Gamalinda
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Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?
Will Champlin
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
Chuck Brodsky
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Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.
Albert Goldman
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My heart hurts, but I am forcing myself to endure it. If people would understand my situation, not even a lot, but just a little bit, I think I could sing again.
Park Bom 2NE1
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I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
Sarah Paulson
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
Plato
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If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers