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Subject: Proverbs about singing From: GUEST,Angun Date: 08 May 00 - 05:11 PM Anyone knows a good proverb or a quote about singing? Angun
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Susanne (skw) Date: 08 May 00 - 05:17 PM A German one: Birds who sing at dawn are eaten at dusk by the cat. (Proibably not the kind you are after ...) - Susanne |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,JZG Date: 08 May 00 - 05:17 PM "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." But I forget who said it. Another one I like (but also can't attribute, and it's not specifically about singing) is: "Music is too important to be left to professionals." JZG |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 08 May 00 - 06:07 PM Here is a quote I just put in the thread What is Folk in SONG.
Bright is the ring of words Robert Louis Stevenson (from Songs of Travel) |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mark Clark Date: 08 May 00 - 06:08 PM "Never teach a pig to sing; it is a waste of your time and it annoys the pig." - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Chocolate Pi Date: 08 May 00 - 06:26 PM From the fasola discussions email list: >>"Some people say I can't sing. >> Well, nobody can say I didn't sing." >attributed to Florence Foster Jenkins, operatic singer >whose recordings were marked by "rather remarkable >shifts in tonality." |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: wysiwyg Date: 08 May 00 - 06:29 PM The Book of Psalms is full of quotes about singing. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Date: 08 May 00 - 06:30 PM Praise, what about the lullaby from last night? That sure works for me! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 08 May 00 - 07:48 PM HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING? |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: wysiwyg Date: 08 May 00 - 07:58 PM The song Mbo is referring to is written out in the HearMe May 05 thread, and is by Lorre Wyatt. More info on it is at this thread: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=17874 ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 08 May 00 - 08:22 PM Couple for ye to ponder on:
Every time she (Edith Piaf) sings you have the feeling she's wrenching her soul from her body for the last time. Jean Cocteau
For me, singing is a way of escaping. it's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Only when singing did I feel loved. Maria Callas
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 08 May 00 - 08:26 PM Sorry forgot the second quote is by Edith Piaf... |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 08 May 00 - 08:26 PM My Grandmother used to say "Sing at the table, cry in bed" But I'm not really sure why... we used to sing at the table all the freekin' time?!?!?!?! LOL! |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mbo Date: 08 May 00 - 08:32 PM "Ponder your life, and the lives of those who are, have been, and will be...and let your voice be the instrument of the combined existence..." --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 08 May 00 - 08:41 PM Not a proverb, but: You can do anything to music; it doesn't mind. -Dave Swarbrick. Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 08 May 00 - 08:48 PM Song is the pen of the soul. Rabbi Chaim Drizin, at the funeral for tenor Jan Peerce |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mrrzy Date: 08 May 00 - 09:04 PM Thread Creep alert, but who said If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of YOUR revolution!? |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Chocolate Pi Date: 08 May 00 - 09:41 PM Mrrzy: Emma Goldman, turn-of-the century American (born in Russia, deported from the US several times) feminist and anarchist. more quotations: various people quoted as saying something along the lines of "give me the making of a country's songs and I will control the making of its laws" (isn't this the epigraph in "Songs that Changed the World"?) Anything too silly to be spoken can be sung (Voltaire or Beaumarchais or someone; quoted by Shaw in Man and Superman) "All things shall perish from under the sky Music alone shall live, music alone shall live, music alone shall live Never to die" "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision onde I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice!" Coleridge, Kubla Khan "Now shall my inward joys arise and burst into a song." Africa, Sacred Harp 178 Chocolate Pi |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Night Owl Date: 09 May 00 - 12:00 AM great thread and responses....Thank you for starting it Angun!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mbo Date: 09 May 00 - 12:09 AM "I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea I'll sing my visions to the sky-high mountains I'll sing my song to the free.... One note, pure and easy Playing so free, like a breath rippling by...." --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: catspaw49 Date: 09 May 00 - 12:13 AM You're right Owl.......The only thing that always comes to mind first is something I heard Roy Clark say about Patsy Cline. "After Patsy sang a song, you knew it had been completely sung." Now that's one helluva' compliment......if not a proverb. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mbo Date: 09 May 00 - 12:23 AM "If I get an encore I go home feeling like a king It's a two-way situation I get a lot of pleasure when I sing" --Christy Moore --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: alison Date: 09 May 00 - 12:33 AM Swans sing before they die - t'were no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. S.T.Coleridge slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Amergin Date: 09 May 00 - 03:03 AM Through all this world of joy and sorrow We still can have singing tomorrow Pete Seeger
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Sian in Wales Date: 09 May 00 - 05:13 AM My dad had a version of Clinton's Gran's: Sing at the table, die in the workhouse (he could be quite miserable, by dad...) Then there's the song The Silver Swan (which, living, hath no note. When Death approached unlocked her silent throat, etc.) And the most well known in Welsh is, "Can di bennill mwyn i'th nain, Ac fe gan dy nain i tithau." (Sing a gentle verse to your Granny, and your Granny will sing back to you) Sort of ... one good turn deserves another. Sian |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: keltcgrasshoppper Date: 09 May 00 - 07:14 AM "And even the sun in dawn a chorus sings, a celestial melody to the earth below" Tjaden ....Have a great day KGH.. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 09 May 00 - 03:08 PM Life is a shipwreck but we should not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Angun Date: 09 May 00 - 03:11 PM Thanks to all of you! What a great place this is! Anyone know this in gaelic? A sharing of gold is but brief, but a sharing of song lasts long. ~Gaelic Proverb~ Angun
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Wesley S Date: 09 May 00 - 04:22 PM Someone said "Pete Seeger taught the world to sing and we haven't forgiven him yet" |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 May 00 - 05:08 PM "Exuberance is beauty." -- William Blake It applies to singing as well as anything else. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: fulurum Date: 09 May 00 - 05:13 PM music is the soul of the world embedded in sound unknown |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Lanfranc Date: 09 May 00 - 06:29 PM "Sing before breakfast, cry before night" was a saying in my mother's family in Yorkshire. Never stopped me though!
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 10 May 00 - 03:46 AM "If the bar empties early, the Skiffler must be singing" (anon but usedd widely in UK,and has over the last 20 or so years spread to Greece as well) RtS |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: keltcgrasshoppper Date: 10 May 00 - 07:05 AM "Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, and death, and that forever, one grand sweet song." Charles Kingsley |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 10 May 00 - 08:41 AM To JZG ('way up near the top of the thread): "If you can walk, you can dance...etc." is attributed to the Yoruba people of Nigeria. "Music is too important to be left to professionals" I've seen attributed to Michelle Shocked! |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: folk1234 Date: 10 May 00 - 12:32 PM There was an earlier thread re the Song, "When You Learn a Song, You've Got A Friend For Life". |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Metchosin Date: 10 May 00 - 12:45 PM slight drift..."I write music as a sow piddles" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: kendall Date: 10 May 00 - 12:59 PM Make a joyful noise unto the lord..come into his presense with singing and into his courts with praise. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 12 May 00 - 08:05 AM Not about singing but stillmusic-related, got this from my current reading (Terminal event by James Thayer): The narrator is an amateur blues harp player:"A drum solo is like a sneeze. You know when it's coming but you can't do a damn thing about it." RtS |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Wolfgang Date: 12 May 00 - 08:18 AM German song: Wo man singt, da lass Dich ruhig nieder, böse Menschen haben keine Lieder.
(Where there's singing, sit down without fear, Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Allan C. Date: 12 May 00 - 08:46 AM Among my all-time favorites is: "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Robo Date: 13 May 00 - 01:51 AM Dave . . . loved the Belloc. Here's an old one from the Stones' "December's Children" album that could draw some comment: It's "The Singer, Not the Song." |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Ebbie Date: 13 May 00 - 02:31 AM "Then to my raptured ear Let one sweet song be giv'n Let music charm me last on earth And greet me first in heav'n." Last verse of a song that Ginny Hawker, among others, sings. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 May 00 - 02:43 AM Another slight creep - there's one about a whistling woman, in that she shouldn't or else some great calamity will occur, but I can't remember it too well - it is before 8.00am on a Saturday!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 13 May 00 - 01:03 PM Liz, I think you're thinking about:
A Whistling woman and a crowing hen Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,grace Date: 03 Jan 05 - 10:55 PM "my song is my gift; this one's for you" |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST Date: 04 Jan 05 - 02:03 PM "Qui orationem cantat, bis orat" "He who sings his prayers, prays twice" St. Augustine |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Burke Date: 04 Jan 05 - 05:59 PM Guest, thanks for the original. I've heard it as "He who sings, prays twice" and "He who sings well, prays twice." I'm equally glad to know the source. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Mudlark Date: 04 Jan 05 - 06:32 PM Isak Dinesen said, "All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story." Equally true of music/song. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Jan 05 - 09:08 PM Alice Gerrard For you gave me a song Of a place that I call home; A song of then, A song of now, A song of yet to come. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:51 AM Alas for those who will not sing and die with all their music still within them - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Burke Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:26 AM The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 5, sc. 1, l. 102-3. Just start to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot be done," and you'll do it. Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) It Couldn't Be Done (l. 23–24). . . Swans sing before they die—'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) Epigram on a Bad Singer, Poetical Works, ed. James Dyke Campbell (1893). If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there are night owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) Letter, December 22, 1853, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 224, Houghton Mifflin (1906). 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. Billie Holiday (1915–1959) and William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues, ch. 4 (1956, rev. 1975). All found in: The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Pres at Bartleby.com |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Cookieless KathWestra at work Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:04 AM Nice thread. I'm glad it got revived! I have a Dutch Delft plate on my wall with a well-known (and very true) Dutch proverb. The English translation of the text, which is in Dutch, is: "In the concert of life, nobody gets a program." Another favorite is a Chekov (I think) quote that goes something like: "Music unlocks the frozen rivers of the heart." (anybody got a Bartlett's to check on the exact words?) Kathy |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:23 AM More's the pity, my Bartlett's doesn't include your "Music unlocks" quote. Nor does the index show me such a quote by someone else. Sorry. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Com Seangan Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:41 PM áõñéïí áäéïí áów Tomorrow I'll sing another song (from the Greek) |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Com Seangan Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:44 PM Sorry my Greek symbols didn't come out. I'll try copy and paste: Áõñéïí áäéïù áów |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Padre Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:55 PM "If you sing 'Fox on the Run' first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day." Anonymous bluegrass singer @ Berryville, 1975 |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,Tyra Symone Date: 27 Jan 09 - 03:08 PM Those who wish to sing, always find a song. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: High Hopes (inactive) Date: 27 Jan 09 - 03:24 PM If you know all the words to the songs, you probably don't know enough songs |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Joe_F Date: 27 Jan 09 - 08:50 PM A song makes you feel a thought. Those who can't play sing; those who can't sing dance; those who can't dance play. And for the lifetime of a song, The fickle were true and the weak were strong. Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. -- G. K. Chesterton (1906) |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 27 Jan 09 - 09:39 PM If only the finest bird was allowed to sing, the forest would be a very silent place. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Jim Carroll Date: 28 Jan 09 - 03:12 AM Not a proverb, but my all-time favourite quote: "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (Scottish patriot and anti-unionist) 1655-1716" or my mother's comment on my singing: "If you were singing for s**t you wouldn't get the smell of it". Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Nigel Parsons Date: 28 Jan 09 - 04:19 AM "Those of you who will not sing mus' be playing wi' your own ding-a-ling" (Chuck Berry) |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: MikeofNorthumbria Date: 28 Jan 09 - 05:03 AM Not a proverb, exactly, but ... Quite a few of my guitar pupils have claimed that they "couldn't sing". How did they know? They'd tried, a long time ago, and parents, teachers, siblings or school friends had urged them to give it up, because they were "tone deaf". My rehab programme for them started with this limerick: There was a young fellow from Tring Who said when they asked him to sing "You may think it's odd But I cannot tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the King!" If you can recognise the difference between one note and another, you are not tone deaf. If you are not tone deaf, and you can talk, then you can learn to sing – maybe not brilliantly, but at least adequately. It's just a matter of technique – like walking, swimming, or riding a bicycle. Find a good teacher, and work at it. Listening to great singers is a joy – but so is singing for yourself and your friends. Don't miss out on it for the rest of your life, just because some ill-informed person heard you hit a clinker and told you to give up. Wassail! |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Phil Edwards Date: 28 Jan 09 - 05:21 AM "Singing a song in the morning, Singing it again at night. I don't even know what I'm singing about But it makes me feel I feel all right..." - Kevin Ayers I used to think that was quite profound, as a song lyric. Actually, I still think it's quite profound. And who can forget Peter Blegvad's "The only song"? Here are the first few verses: Imagine a world where this was the only song And, against your will, You had to listen to it all day long Until it made you ill, Until it made you ill. Imagine a world where this was the only song And, against your will, You had to listen to it all day long Until it made you ill, Until it made you ill. Imagine a world where this was the only song And, against your will, You had to listen to it all day long Until it made you ill, Until it made you ill. ... "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!" - Albus Dumbledore |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Greenacres Date: 28 Jan 09 - 08:56 AM If you have time to chatter Read books If you have time to read Walk into mountain, desert and ocean If you have time to walk sing songs and dance If you have time to dance Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot Sasaki Nanao |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,straw-ghana Date: 12 Oct 10 - 06:12 AM what words can do ......music does is better |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: KirstenE Date: 12 Oct 10 - 06:20 AM "Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, thrill the deepest notes of woe" Robert Burns |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Desi C Date: 12 Oct 10 - 08:28 AM A most enjoyable thread, more please Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song (Townes Van Zandt) They'll be singing in Kilkenny, when my time has come to go (from my own song) Desi C |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 12 Oct 10 - 10:24 AM Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Not a proverb, a line from "Ode to a Skylark" by Shelley I've also heard something along the lines of "sing good & loud, & if you can't sing good, sing loud" But I dont remember where. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: mayomick Date: 12 Oct 10 - 12:38 PM One of William Blake's Proverbs from Hell isn't solely about singing but I think it applies. "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings" |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: GUEST,ArranBrownButterfly Date: 12 Oct 10 - 05:34 PM One of the Guide Laws was along the lines of, 'A Guide smiles and sings at all times'. When I was in the Guides this had changed to, 'A Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties'. Hence my imperfect recollection of the older version, as it wasn't the one I had to learn. Doubtless some slightly older ex-Guide can put me right. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 12 Oct 10 - 05:45 PM "Whistle before breakfast - tears before bed time". One that my mother used to quote, I have no idea of the reasoning behind it. "Who knows, the horse may sing". An optimists view of the world about the story of the man who told the King that he could teach a horse to sing or else be put to death if he failed. |
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Subject: RE: Proverb about singing From: MGM·Lion Date: 13 Oct 10 - 04:10 AM My mother's version was "Sing before breakfast, cry before supper". She was never sure why either. ~Michael~ |
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