#sing

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal. ↗

— Nelson Eddy

#door #even #kind #make #merely

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#i #myself #sing

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. ↗

— Franz Boas

#been #case #deviate #every #exceeding

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science. ↗

— Franz Boas

#any #been #clearly #development #domain

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#born #child #ever #i #i was born

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#child #ear #far #i #imagine

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#feel #i #i feel #more #myself

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#did #done #get #i #instruments