Paul Robeson Quotes About Singing

• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

  Paul Robeson

  Verano, Canción, Dulce

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

• Con mi canto, mi actuación y mi discurso, quiero hacer que suene la libertad. Quizá pueda llegar al corazón de la gente mejor que a su mente, con la lucha común del hombre corriente.

  Paul Robeson

  Libertad, Lucha, Corazón

• When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

  Paul Robeson

  Canción, Gente, Cantar

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). "Paul Robeson habla: escritos, discursos, entrevistas, 1918-1974", Brunner-Routledge

• Los talentos de un artista, pequeños o grandes, son dados por Dios. No tienen nada que ver con la persona privada; no son nada de lo que enorgullecerse. Son sólo una confianza sagrada... Habiendo sido dado, debo dar. No sólo de pan vive el hombre, y lo que hace el agricultor debo hacerlo yo. Debo alimentar a la gente, con mis canciones.

  Paul Robeson

  Canción, Artista, Hombres

• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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