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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Heart, Woman

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas, Alone, Perfect

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beauty, Women, Beautiful

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
Adele

Someone, Through, Problems

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks

Music, Christmas, Heart

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
Cat Stevens

Job, Down, Living

Everybody sung in my family.
Rod Stewart

Family, Everybody

I've sung other people's music all my life.
Adam Lambert

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.
Mike Singletary

Life, Time, Person

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
Steven Gerrard

Enjoy, Name, Player

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

Business, Tell, Again

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

Ignore, Impossible, Sometimes

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
Katherine Jenkins

Time, Best, Travel

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger

Love, Country, American

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

Written, Decline, Listened

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
Pete Seeger

Proud, Anybody, Sing

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
Pete Seeger

Else, Known, Songs

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Enya

Natural, Singing, Lends

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
Bobby Orr

Wait, Until, Reading

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal

Life, Time, Character

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Barry Gibb

Work, Someone, Else

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.
Pete Seeger

Saying, Country, Group

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger

Life, Religion, Political

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait

Love, Cool, Before

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
Jeffrey Archer

Life, Cricket, Team

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
Liv Tyler

Life, Love, Whole

I've sung background for a couple of bands.
Randy Jackson

Couple, Bands, Background

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.
Geri Halliwell

Best, Before, Try

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
Neil Diamond

Song, Took, Favorite

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