Janis Joplin
Singing, it’s like loving somebody. It’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Luciano Pavarotti
People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
Cora Canne Meijer
Je mag in je keel net zoveel van het zingen voelen als in je ogen van het zien.
Richard Strauss
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
James Dent
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
Robert Heinlein
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
William James
I don’t sing because I’m happy. I’m happy because I sing.
W.H. Auden
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Plato
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Paul Valéry (Franse dichter)
Als een vogel precies kon zeggen wat hij zingt, waarom hij zingt en wat het in hem is dat zingt, zou hij niet meer zingen.
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Als ik de dingen niet meer weet, als ik de namen niet meer ken en wat ik weet meteen vergeet. Zodat ik onherkenbaar ben, begin dan aan een heel oud lied. Dan zing ik mee en aarzel niet.
Spreekwoord
Zoals de ouden zongen, piepen de jongen.
Montserrat Caballé
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Maria Callas
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
Mahalia Jackson
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
Ludwig von Beethoven
Eine falsche Note zu spielen, ist unbedeutend; ohne Leidenschaft zu spielen, ist unverzeihlich.”
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.
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.