Quotes:
"Singing is the most legitimate of arts; no one else can put in a touch with brush or pencil for one - one must face it alone." (Lillian Nordica)
"Sing with your voices, and with your hearts, and with all your moral convictions, sing the news songs, not only with your tongue, but with your life." (St. Augustine - 354.430)
"But the singer must still have one thing: the universal ground of all modd, the ability to apply imagination to the voice, the ability to sing with imagination." (Sören Kierkegaard - 1813.1855 'A passing comment on a detail in 'Don Giovanni', 1845')
"Castrati: These men, who sing so well but withou warmth or expression are, in the theatre, the most disagreeable actors in the world. They lose their voice at an early age and become disgustingly fat... There are some letters, such as R, which they are quite unable to pronounce." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1712.1778, Dictionnaire de Musique)"
"A singer able to sing so much as sixteen bars of good music in a natural, well-poised and sympathetic voice, without effort, without affectation, without tricks, without exaggerationa, eithout hiatuses, without hiccupping, without barking, without baa-ing - such a singer is a rare, a very rare, an excessively very rare bird." (Hector Berlioz - 1803.1869)
"A tenor is not a man but a disease." (Hans von Bülow, att. - 1830.1894)
"The exercise of singing is delightful to nature and good to preserve the hearlth of Man." (William Byrd - 1543.1623 - Psalms, Sonets and Songs)
"He who sings scares away his woes." (Miguel de Cervantes - 1547.1616 - 'Don Quixote', 1605)
"Were there no women in the world, no women singers, Iwould never have become a composer. They have been my inspiration my whole life long." (Alexander Sergeievitch Dargomizhsky - 1813.1869)
"Of things I'd rather keep in silence I must sing." (Countess of Dis, troubador - bc 1140)
"The singing man keeps a shop in his throat." (George Herbert - 1593.1633)
"The fault, common to all singers, is that when their friends ask them to sing, they're never willing, b ut when they're not asked they will never leave off." (Horace - Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8BC)
If you need more, let me know. I have a dictionary of "Musical Quotations".
Camila.
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Camila Ribeiro c_ribeiro78@y...
Singing is the most legitimate of arts; no one else can put in a touch with brush or pensil for one - one must face it alone. (Lillian Nordica)
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