Sing Quotes

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Sai Baba

Life, Love, Game

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Heart, Find, Wish

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Write

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden

Love, Africa, Meet

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

Time, Home, Death

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
Marilyn Monroe

Mean, Until, Looking

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

Song, Bird, Answer

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Funny, Dance, Mad

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Understand, Why

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Rain, Kiss, Head

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
Frank Sinatra

Said, Else, Honest

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

Respect, Career, Done

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

Why, After, Free

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Dance, Learn, Rather

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Snow, Together, Happen

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday

Art, Mother, Nothing

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso

Eyes, Close, Draw

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Dance, Learn, Rather

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso

Eyes, Put, Order

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston

God, Voice, Gave

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh

Love, Snow, Black

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno

Great, Yourself, Self

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson

Love, Work, Truth

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass

Work, Slaves, Expected

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music, Win, Die

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II

Love, Heart, Give

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