Top 1200 Singing Birds Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the night are we, are we. Singing and dancing joyfully." It was witchy and wonderful because it meant there was power in joy. They were not afraid of the night because they were giggling. I am very interested in finding the surprising boundaries, for instance, where do joy and fear meet?

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

I love the rabbits and the squirrels and the birds.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

I love watching birds of prey and stags.

I'm very involved on a lot of levels in making of this album," "I wrote on 11 of the 12 tracks which is, creatively, really important to me. I want to be singing my music passionately and when I'm writing from a place where God has been teaching me something new-when I write from that place-it comes across when I'm singing. That's vital to the message and the reality of God that I want to impart with my music.

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

At one point, I had close to 100 birds.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.