Sayings about Songs
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. ~ German Proverbs
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. ~ Korean Proverbs
A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song. ~ Chinese Proverb
The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey. ~ Turkish Proverb
Worms don’t like the robin’s song. ~ Native American Proverb
Dead song–birds make a sad meal. ~ Chinese Proverb
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away. ~ Traditional Proverb
I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat. ~ French Proverb
The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Spread the word of a Psalm and it becomes a popular song. ~ Myanmar Proverb
You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field. ~ Malagasy Proverb
The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation. ~ Spanish Proverbs
A nightingale doesn’t feed on songs. ~ Russian Proverbs
Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions. ~ Icelandic Proverb
They who want to sing will always find a song. ~ Swedish Proverbs
A song belongs to no one. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
Stay where there are songs. ~ Gypsy Proverb
Love begins with song and music and ends in a sea of tears. ~ Italian Proverbs
Quotations about Songs
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~ Author Unknown
Every pert young fellow that has a moving fancy, and the least jingle of verse in his head, sets up for a writer of songs, and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress. ~ Sir Richard Steele
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts. ~ Ouida
And heaven had wanted one immortal song. ~ John Dryden
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! ~ Robert Browning
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~ Emory Austin
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ~ Alexander Smith
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~ Donna Roberts
That music in itself, whose sounds are song, the poetry of speech. ~ Lord Byron
Life is a song. Love is the music. ~ Author Unknown
You can cage the singer but not the song. ~ Harry Belafonte
Song is the tone of feeling. ~ A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree’s to leaf itself in April. ~ Alexander Smith
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. ~ Joseph Joubert
What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear to taste? ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~ Henry Giles
Knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ~ Joan Baez
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ~ Hilaire Belloc
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. ~ W. H. Auden
Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. ~ Edmund Waller
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. ~ William Shenstone
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. ~ John Ruskin
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. ~ Melissa Etheridge
Everything ends with songs. ~ Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Sing a song of sixpence. ~ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher