"To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy."
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"All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You."
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"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."
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"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"
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"In the distance someone is singing."
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"I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing."
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"So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing."
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"In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing"
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"Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much."
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"The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing."
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"Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it."
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"The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders."
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"I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it."
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"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."
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"I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom."
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"If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow and, inevitably, you're going to be seated in front of some guy who's playing with himself, and he'll be singing, 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' I tell you - when I see that guy, I feel pretty good about myself."
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"Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?"
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"I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that."
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"When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life."
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"Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word."
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