Country Vocal Performance

Famous quotes containing the words country, vocal and/or performance:

    “This country is at present engaged in furnishing material for future authors; not in encouraging its living ones.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Prayer is
    The world in tune,
    A spirit-voice,
    And vocal joys,
    Whose echo is Heaven’s bliss.”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    “O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)