105 Sung Quotes for You to Enjoy

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Pete Seeger

Business Will Singing Say Tell Sung Glad Songs Because Again Ever

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Pete Seeger

People Other Say Sung Written Listened Them Decline Who Ever

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it. Rachel Platten

Time Writing College Pour Band Everything Finally Sung Had Songs Always Choirs Full Full-Time Groups Started Playing Desire

Every song asks to be sung in a different way. Ray LaMontagne

Song Every Way Sung Different Ask Different Way

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. Raymond Queneau

My aunt, Rosie Gaines, sung with Prince - 'Diamonds and Pearls.' And at the time, I didn't realize how big of a song that was. I just thought, 'Oh, that's my auntie singing with Prince. That's cool.' Ro James

Time Song Thought Singing Big Sung Prince How Diamonds Aunt Oh Just Realize Rosie Cool Pearls

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. Robin Coste Lewis

Sung Poetry Know Very Close Means

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences. Roy Wood

If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity. Shankar Mahadevan

Cinema Films Medium Gave Local Broad Independent Out Sung Folk Promoted Folk Songs Some Classical Songs Reach Audience Been Artists Which Them Should Popular Using Popularity Film

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine. Shawn Colvin

Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one. Stephen Sondheim

Love Character Me Song Somebody Singing Single Every Else Sung Some Songs Written None Might Created View Ever

My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, 'Jeopardy!' champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on 'Sesame Street' by a chorus of Muppets. Steve Rushin

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. Tom Waits

Song Sometimes Impossible Way Sung Magnetism Demands Certain Ignore Certain Way

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. Tracy Chapman

Mother Singing Once Franklin Sung Admired About Aretha Aretha Franklin Had Cleveland Learned Up Jackson Who Growing Growing Up Professionally

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence. Walter Kirn

Best Behavior Politicians Too Evidence Favor Sung Immune Struggled Mere Remind Idea Like Because Very Selves American Human Blues Human Behavior Either Them Themselves Theories Who Imagine

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity. Wayne Coyne

Love Humanity People Think Caring Sung About Stopped Might Much

I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords. Withered Hand

Best Home Me Thoughts Cycling Melodies Collection Sung Would Songs Over Occurred Bunch Just Store Grocery Grocery Store Describe Chords

I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a bass player or a keyboard player - they're not more important than any other musician. Yngwie Malmsteen

Me Somebody Important Nothing Bass Bass Player Other Keyboard Else Keyboard Player Lyrics Everything Melodies Musician Sung More Like Singer Wrote Always Than Any Just Different Player

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father. Bappi Lahiri

Age Father First Sung Composing Composition Started

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung. Emma Walton Hamilton

You Song Words Before Every Think Starts I Think Sung About Performed Because Always Yeah Been Arts Irrevocably Literature Script Page Connected Film Ever Play

At the start, it would kind of been more about freestyling. But then I started to sing over the beats. And then came a realisation that maybe I was alright at rapping, and people seemed to enjoy it, but when I sung, it was a real difference. Just the reaction of people, I was like, 'I think I should do that, cause it feels better.' Rag'n'Bone Man

People Better Cause Enjoy Think I Think Kind Sung Would Rapping About Seemed More Beats Over Feels Like Sing Alright Reaction Real Came Real Difference Been Maybe Just Difference Realisation Then Should Start Started

People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs. Javed Ali

Time People Try Musician Jobs Sung Something Like Genre Felt Till Surprised Refuse Realise Challenging

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