singer quotes

Soy el cantor deAme  rica auto  ctono y salvaje; mi lira tiene un alma, mi canto un ideal. Mi verso no se mece colgado de un ramaje con un vaive  n pausado de hamaca tropical. I am the aboriginal and savage singer of America; my lyre has a soul, my song has an ideal. My poetry does not swing from the branches with the slow movement of a tropical hammock.

-Ch'in Chia   c.150
  Alma  Ame  rica,'Blaso   n' (translated as'Blazon',1935).

There is delight in singing, tho'none hear Beside the singer.

-Walter Savage Landor
  'To Robert Browning'.

   I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

-Meat Loaf
  In the Observer,7 Dec.

Look not thou on beauty's charming, Sit thou still when kings are arming. Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep thy finger, Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Bride of Lammermoor, ch.3 (LucyAshton's song).

Electric guitars areanabomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

- Andre  s Segovia
Quoted in Rick FriedmanThe Beatles:Words without Music (1968).

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads,'TheTriumph ofTime'.