Singing Quotes - Page 14

it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.

If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.