Quotes about “Life & Singing”

• “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.”

PLATO

• “To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

Pablo PICASSO

• “I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance — and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.”

Audrey HEPBURN

• “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

Jiddu KRISHNAMURTI

• “Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing — if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.”

Frank SINATRA

• “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

― C. JoyBell C.

• “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”

― Johnny DEPP

• “Where words fail, music speaks.”

― Hans Christian ANDERSEN

• “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”

― Douglas ADAMS

• “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

― Alphonse de LAMARTINE

• “The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God….Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”

― Martin LUTHER