I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets. —Sylvia Townsend Warner More about this quote Tags: children music singing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. —Henry Giles More about this quote Tags: memory music songs sermons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: music listening radio songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything too stupid to be said is sung. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: music stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. —Angela Monet More about this quote Tags: insanity music experience joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: love music appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. . . . I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: sin music church excitement drama rock and roll Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. —Sir Thomas Beecham More about this quote Tags: music hearing bands Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. —Robert Indiana More about this quote Tags: music art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. —Fred Allen More about this quote Tags: religion music church singing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. —Corita Kent More about this quote Tags: people music painting wholeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. —Dan Rather More about this quote Tags: intellect music snobs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. —Ed Gardner More about this quote Tags: music violence singing opera Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: music romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: music water whistling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email