Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

Alessia Cara

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

Coco Lee

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

Conrad Aiken

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Conor Oberst

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

David Fincher

When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

David Foster Wallace

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...

Anne Lamott

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Andy Partridge

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

Crystal Waters

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Adrienne Barbeau

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Compay Segundo

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

Compay Segundo

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Dan O'Brien

I always know where the scissors are.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Jane Hirshfield

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jamie Foxx

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Juvenal

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Aristotle

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

She is a talker and a thinker more than a singer or performer. And she has an unusually strong sense of humor.

We islanders have songs to sing and stories to tell.

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Chris Eyre

bedroll to bedroll about the size of a single sleeping bag.

Reese Witherspoon

awful... I was sure they were going to have LeAnn Rimes sing my part.

If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.