Singer Quotes

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones—ordinary musicians from down South who carried the music to the corners of the country, to little speakeasies in little towns where they played honky-tonk music for $5 a night. Or less. Sometimes they played for drinks, and the sheer love of it.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

You look like a boy, dress like a boy, and sing like a bird.

A personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

Georgette Leblanc

We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in the country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

Music brings a stability to humanity in an uncivilized time.

The flowers absorb the sunshine because it is their nature. I give out melody because God filled my soul with it.

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

I don't know how to sing Black—and I don't know how to sing white, either. I know how to sing. Music is not a color to me.

Whitney Houston

Sent for you yesterday, and here you come today.

Born under a bad sign Been down since I began to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all

William Bell (singer)

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here.
It'll be better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

Christine McVie

I'm in love with the modern world Massachusetts when it's late at night And the neon when it's cold outside I've got the radio on

Jonathan Richman

Take me to the river
And wash me down
Won't you cleanse my soul
Put my feet on the ground.

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

Colette Baron-Reid

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

There are homes you run from, and homes you run to...

Laura Cunningham

The moon
waning or waxing
a sliver set
like a cradle
a thin suggestion,
the lit edge
of porcelain.

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

As long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive,
I've got all my life to live, I've got so much love to give,
I will survive! I will survive!

One-two-three o'clock, four o'clock rock!
Five-six-seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock!
Nine-ten-eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock!
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight!

We will not bow down to racism
We will not bow down to injustice
We will not bow down to exploitation
Tmgon' stand.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.

Ukraine can become a successful country and a major player on the political stage if we start heeding the voices of the people.

These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.