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| A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~ Maya Angelou |
| He who sings frightens away his ills. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, |
| Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~ Emory Austin |
| Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~ Marilyn Penland |
| The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. ~ Rabindranath Tagore |
| You can cage the singer but not the song. ~ Harry Belafonte |
| Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~ Proverb |
| I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. ~ William James |
| So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 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 |
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God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! ~ William Shakespeare |
| God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing. ~ Rabindranath Tagore |
| As long as we live, there is never enough singing. ~ Martin Luther |
| The total person sings not just the vocal chords. ~ Esther Broner |
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings,
Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
~ William Gifford |
| A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~ Henry Giles |
| It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree’s to leaf itself in April. ~ Alexander Smith |
| Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman |
That music in itself, whose sounds are song,
The poetry of speech.
~ Lord Byron |
| 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 |
| Life is a song. Love is the music. ~ Author Unknown |
| Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~ Rose F. Kennedy |
Sweetest the strain when in the song
The singer has been lost.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward |
Who, as they sung, would take the prison’d soul
And lap it in Elysium.
~ John Milton |
| I sing like I feel. ~ Ella Fitzgerald |
| The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller |
| Little dew-drops of celestial melody. ~ Thomas Carlyle |
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears, and skim away.
~ Alfred Tennyson |