Singing With Your Heart Quotes

“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.”
― Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

“The man just opened his mouth, which meant that all kinds of secret doors in his body gave way. He did not sing so much as let his soul free. - "Green Shadows, White Whale”
― Ray Bradbury

“Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently loose, the secret selves that these familiar persons hold inside them shake the room...An undercurrent of clowning and jostling is part of the process by which we succeed finally in making our necessary noise: despite the difficulty of getting the words right, of getting the singers on the same page, of keeping the ritual from falling apart into the anarchy of separate impulses. From such clatter--extended and punctuated by whatever instrument is handy, a triangle a tambourine, a Chinese gone--beauty is born.”
― Geoffrey O'Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

“As long as we have voices, we must sing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The choir and congregation are singing I Vow to Thee My Country. Never has he heard the hymn sung with such heartfelt pathos. It is as if everyone is trying to sing themselves into being. It is the war that makes everyone sing out their hearts like this. The hymn expresses some imperative deep down in the blood. Like running fingers over the edge of things in pitch darkness.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The Way Back to Florence

“She sang.
Wordless hymns of the sea: immediate, extemporized passages about waves and sunlight and tides and the constant, beautiful pressure of water on everything. The glory of seaweed slowly swaying, the delicious feeling that foretold a storm in the Dry World and turbulence below.
The music came out of her without pause, driven by years of observing, seeing, listening, enjoying, experiencing the world and unable to express it. The wonder and sadness of being alive. The joy of being a mermaid; the pain of being the only one like herself- the only mermaid who had been mortal, temporarily, and then lost everything.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet within all that can be felt by the heart, is in an instant more powerful than mere words, we need to feel the words, capture the essence of what we see, and revel in the tastes of nature, and let ourselves allow our hearts to sing out loud, wild, and free.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.”
― Marita Knobel, Singing Opera in Germany

“Music gives strength to the soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him.”
― Sebastian Rotella

“It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“Wyrzucanie negatywnej energii stwarza wolną przestrzeń, w której energia życiowa może zacząć swobodnie krążyć. Oczy zaczynają błyszczeć, uśmiech wypływa na usta, a radość zaczyna przebijać się z wnętrza. Kiedy śpiewasz i bębnisz, nie możesz być smutny, rytm sprowadza Cię z powrotem do naturalnego pulsu życia i łączy z biciem serca Ziemi.”
― Shirlie Roden, Sound Healing: How to Use the Healing Power of the Human Voice

“Just words of mercy or touches of kindness can take a sad heart into singing Jesus love me”
― John M Sheehan

“When I was a child and I would listen to my sister's LPs She was a huge fan and she was so in love with him that she wrote him a letter. I enjoyed seeing my sis so happy about Manilow Mania. I wrote some lyrics based on one of his songs, also thinking of those ships that pass in the night in the city where I was born. Can you guess which one?
Anyway, my sister was already unconscious at the hospital when I inserted an earplug so that she could hear some of his songs. It was very low, very mild Manilow, when all of a sudden, in the second cord when he sang "I made it through the rain" in a beat a bit higher her heartbeat which was being monitored played faster. I could see that as a sign that she was listening. I stopped the song and I started Singing one of her songs that she had especially made for my birthday when I turned nine yrs old and I never forgot about that. I could see a little smile coming from the left side of her lips. It was the affirmation I needed. That she was and will always be there for me as I so admired her soul to the bones!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Her voice had been such an important part of her life before. The merfolk celebrated her for it. Her father excused her occasionally questionable behavior because of it. Eric loved the girl who rescued him, because of her singing...
But...
... she'd never really enjoyed singing for anyone else. In fact, she hated audiences. She sang because she liked to sing. She just... felt... something, and had to sing it. If she were happy, or sad, or angry... she would go off by herself and sing to the coral, sing to the seaweed, sing to an audience of sea snails or tube worms (who listened, but never commented). Most of her mergirlhood had been spent swimming around, exploring, singing to herself. Making up little stories in her head and then putting them into song.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“The right to sing is an absolute, regardless of how it sounds to the outside world. We sing because we must. We sing because it fills our lungs with nourishing air, and lets our hearts soar with the notes we let out.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I'll sing without singing lessons because it brings me happiness. We should pursue joy, not just perfection. I share my love for singing with the world, even without professional training. Like climbing mountains, it doesn't matter if I reach the top with or without lessons - the view is just as beautiful from where I stand.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“Ubi spiritus est cantus est”
― Latin proverb