Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.
Lena Horne
I wanted to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
Jessye Norman
(On critics:) They may write it, but I don’t have to read it. I don’t need it.
Jessye Norman
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you’re going to limit yourself. That’s a very strange way to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, Der in den Zweigen wohnet;Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet. (uit: Der Sänger)
Joe Murray
Marriage should be a duet. When one sings, the other claps.
James Taylor
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Harvey Fierstein
But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It’s a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
Frank Sinatra
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.
Esther Broner
The total person sings, not just the vocal chords.
Elvis Presley
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.
Ella Fitzgerald
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
Ella Fitzgerald
I sing like I feel.
Bobby McFerrin
I sing with the voice I have in that moment.
Bertus Aafjes
Als ik iets formuleer, kom ik tot de ontdekking dat bijna altijd het omgekeerde ook waar is. (Deze houd ik als coach graag in mijn achterhoofd.)
Bret Harte
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Aretha Franklin
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
Maya Angelou
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
spreekwoord
Ieder vogeltje zingt zoals het gebekt is.
George Burns
I love to sing. And I love to drink Scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink Scotch.
Vergilius
Laten we zo lang mogelijk zingen onderweg; de weg wordt er minder eentonig door.
Jean de la Bruyère
Het is een onbeleefd in tegenwoordigheid van hem die gij laat zingen of een instrument bespelen, iemand anders, die dezelfde talenten bezit, onmatig te prijzen; evenals tegenover hen, die u hun verzen voorlezen, een andere dichter.
Leontyne Price
Singing is so exhilarating that it’s difficult to try to explain it.