Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - (Voltaire - Song and Singing)

He who sings, frightens away all his ills. - (Saying, Traditional - Song and Singing)

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. - (Holiday, Billie - Song and Singing)

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. - (Smith, Alexander - Song and Singing)

I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five. - (Jagger, Mick - Song and Singing)

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about. - (Franklin, Aretha - Song and Singing)

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Song and Singing)

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. - (Baez, Joan - Song and Singing)

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? - (Prior, Matthew - Song and Singing)

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. - (Auden, W. H. - Song and Singing)

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. - (O'Keeffe, Georgia - Song and Singing)

Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. - (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Song and Singing)

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! - (Browning, Robert - Song and Singing)

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. - (Etheridge, Melissa - Song and Singing)

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. - (Poe, Edgar Allan - Song and Singing)