SINGING
/ VOICE QUOTES
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the
spirit is real and that its glory is present. - Abraham Heschal
Each
bird must sing with his own throat. - Henrik Ibsen
The
one who sings, prays twice. - St. Augustine
O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music
is singing, and in music there is praise of life. - Kenneth
Leighton
Singing
has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
To
sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
- Maria Callas
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've
nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be
proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given,
I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the
farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.
- Paul Robeson, London 1930
A voice comes from and expresses the speaker's personality and
feelings, together with the state of that person's body. Because
our voices are the link between our inner and outer worlds,
we cannot work on the voice without expecting feelings to come
out. - Christina Shewell
Singing
is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating
acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which
derive from thought and emotion. - Thomas Hampson
The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities.
When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities...the song begins
to sing us...I don't know anymore if I am finding that song
or if I am that song. - Jerzy Grotowski
It
is not possible to express a lofty thought or a beautiful idea
with poor technique. Musical singing is possible only after
developing the basic tools to perform with thoughtful expression
and beauty.
- Unknown
Being
smart and technologically efficient won’t save us. We have
to get back to who we are with the Earth. We have to rediscover
the song of our souls. We have to listen to the chorus of all
living things, and find that their voice is our voice. We have
to learn to sing again the song of the Earth. - Desmond Berghofer,
"Millennium Diary"
The
finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from
the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the
music. - Ernest Newman
I
want to sing like birds sing, not worrying who hears or what
they think. - Rumi
I shall sing with the spirit and I shall sing with the mind
also. - 1 Corinthians 14:15 (NASB)
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom
teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to
God. - Colossians 3:16 (NASB)
A
friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings
it to you when you've forgotten the words. - Unknown
