#singin

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down. ↗

— Billie Piper

#be happy #because #beyonce #couple #down

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#music #perfection #singing #siren #age

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#how #i #i love #love #myself

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #singing #death

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. ↗

— The Script

#music #rage #singing #the-script #writing

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#heart #la-mancha #moon #neruda #nightingale

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#singing #funny

She sang that night like - I cannot say like an angel, for her songs were all of champagne suppers and strolling in the Burlington Arcade; perhaps, then, like a fallen angel - or yet again like a falling one: she sang like a falling angel might sing with the bounds of heaven fresh burst behind him, and hell still distant and unguessed. And as she did so, I sang with her - not loudly and carelessly like the rest of the crowd, but softly, almost secretly, as if she might hear me the better if I whispered rather than bawled. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#love #singing #love

If I cannot fly, let me sing. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#singing #song #music

He who sings scares away his woes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#singing #music