“ It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ Ye holy angels bright, who stand before God's throne and dwell in glorious light, praise ye the Lord each one. Assist our song, or else the theme too high doth seem for mortal tongue. ”
- Richard Baxter- Copy
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“ I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around. ”
- Elvis Costello- Copy
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“ Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing. ”
- Tony Benn- Copy
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“ Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch, In early spring. ”
- William Henry Davies- Copy
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“ I was not a musician at the time. I had an acoustic guitar and I used to sing folk music and Bob Dylan songs. I loved rock and roll though. ”
- Michael Davis- Copy
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“ Summertime is finally here...And it's two bare feet on the dashboardYoung love and an old FordCheap shades and a tattooAnd a Yoo-Hoo bottle on the floorboardPerfect song on the radioSing along 'cause it's one we knowIt's a smile, it's a kissIt's a sip of wine, it's summertimeSweet summertime. ”
- Kenny Chesney- Copy
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“ I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ”
- Jim Cole- Copy
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“ She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers — three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible. ”
- Florence Henderson- Copy
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“ A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck. ”
- Adam Duritz- Copy
- 3.3K
“ All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ”
- Louis Armstrong- Copy
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“ A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ”
- Donna Roberts- Copy
- 3.5K
“ You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. ”
- Roger Waters- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play. ”
- Peter Townsend- Copy
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