Thats the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! – Robert Browning
After about three lessons my voice teacher said, Dont take voice lessons. Do it your way. Youre a song stylist. Always do it your way. – Johnny Cash
Swans sing before they die — twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. – Melissa Etheridge
If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher
Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. – Andrew Fletcher
If a songs about something Ive experienced or that couldve happened to me its good. But if its alien to me, I couldnt lend anything to it. Because thats what soul is all about. – Aretha Franklin
I cant stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it aint music, its close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. – Billie Holiday
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. – Horace
Id rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when Im forty-five. – Mick Jagger
It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed. Then will we be able to say: – Zolt
If your neighbor looks at you like they dont enjoy the key youre singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing. – Odetta
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. – Edgar Allan Poe
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? – Matthew Prior
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. – Pete Seeger
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. – George Bernard Shaw
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin not sounding like them, but playing the voice like those instrumentalists. – Frank Sinatra
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. – Alexander Smith
