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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Chris Cornell

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Alfred A. Montapert

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

Graham Nash

Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946-60).

Stephen Sondheim

She writes her own music, sings beautifully, she's athletic and has everything going for her.

Brian Chalk

I just like singing because I grew up -- and everybody sings in my family.

Collin Lapp

He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.

Agnes Kosinski

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

It was a great race. There's not much more to say really. If you like racing, then you would have loved to watch this one I can tell you. It just doesn't get any better than that the way the top-three finished. The first three cars were dueling it out for at least the last 20 laps. This kind of finish just shows that it's not over until the fat lady sings.

Scott Pruett

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Robert Burns

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Janet Frame

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle

She works way harder than we do. You see some artists who are nowhere near in their career where Dolly is, and they complain about all the stuff they have to do. She comes into a rehearsal and sings 'Coat of Many Colors' like it's the first time she ever sang it. It's changed our whole attitude.

Jamie Johnson

It's a start. The fat lady never sings here.

Ron Bevacqua

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Mahalia Jackson

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

What's invisible/ sings, and we bear witness.

Rita Dove

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou

Every time he sings this song, he's digging this woman right out of the ground and dancing with her.

Keith Dixon

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Mary H. Waldrip

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Don Williams, Jr

You never know, ... You stay with it until the end. It's like Yogi Berra said, it ain't over until it's over and the fat lady sings.

Charlie Manuel

I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and worm.

Danny Elfman

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

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

Bob Crosby

The air is like a butterfly/ With frail blue wings/ The happy earth looks at the sky/ And sings.

Joyce Kilmer

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

Even though he sings the same songs night after night, he never disappoints, ... He always gives 100 percent, and no matter how old he gets, he always sounds like Johnny Mathis.

Johnny Mathis

She goes home and sings these songs, and I love it.

Debra Robinson

A good lyric sings to me. And another lyricist might sing another lyrical song to me.

Barry Mann

The whole family sings together at church.

Michelle King

I sang as one / Who on a tilting deck sings / To keep men's courage up, though the wave hangs / That shall cut off their sun.

C. Day Lewis

How's Your Romance? Andrea Marcovicci Sings Cole Porter.

Andrea Marcovicci

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Everybody sings, so that's a real benefit. If you've got two people who are hoarse or under the weather one night, the others can step in.

Russ Suemnicht

[Charles sings the ballad] It All Goes By So Fast ... Shout.

Mary J. Blige

[Since he's in the business, Chris Barron fortunately understands the demands of his wife's career.] Even though he sings rock and roll, ... he loves musical theatre maybe even more than I do. He loves Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein. . .

Laura Benanti

When she sings, she embodies the song in ways that many singers don't. I thought, 'I bet she can act.' And she can.

Scott Elliot

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Anna Wickham

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Alex Lowe

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Al Stewart

His harmonica playing is so simple, but to get somebody to play that simple is really hard to do, ... And then when he sings through his nose, with all of that combined, he's just got something special. It's a mixture between the blues, the country and the gospel.

Kenny Neal

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

... and her singing. She sings all the time while we're driving.

Bill Harris

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.

Julian Schnabel

My accompanists are Danny Barnes and Dennis Crouch. Dennis is a fantastic upright bass player -- and Danny sings harmony and plays electric guitar and he plays the banjo. Danny's been playing since September with me and we can do most everything fairly convincingly from the records, especially with that electric guitar arsenal.

Tim O'brien

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

Frank Carroll

If somebody sings, 'Baby I'll fly to the moon for you, I'll bring the stars down,' that's a damn lie. I sing about the events of the world as it's going today. It's more like gospel than anything else.

Henry Townsend

I love that record, it's a classic. It's one of those songs that if you hear it when you're having a bad day, really hits you. The way he sings it makes you feel the whole world is against you.

Bill Barr

When someone with amazing stage presence sings something in a way that everyone just believes it, it just makes it so real and so emotional. It's a natural gift and…we're lucky that a couple of our members can do that kind of thing.

Tom Dumont

I truly believe the whole message of the show is that it's OK to be who you are. The overall message I want to relay to the audience is 'Don't dream it, be it,' as Dr. Frank N Furter sings.

David Rodgers