Choir Quotes

• All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

  George Berkeley

  Heaven, Mind, Body

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)

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• I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

  Paul McCartney

  Teamwork, Real, Optimistic

  "John Rutter: The Art Of The Christmas Carol". Interview with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. December 20, 2008.

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• In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Holiday, Angel

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• I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

  Paul Lynde

  Funny, Life, Family

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• It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

  Connie Willis

  Church Choir, Needs, World

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• There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Angel, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2014

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• I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to create emotions, love and togetherness. Communication, which comes from this idea that sparks off of humanity and becomes something that is cherished and loved by the people, is very fascinating to me.

  Damian Marley

  Song, Communication, Ideas

  "Lollapalooza 2011: Q&A with Damian Marley". Interview with Victoria Rodriguez, www.usatoday.com. August 3, 2011.

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Voice, Unity

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• The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

  Keith Getty

  Audience

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• The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

  Connie Willis

  Revenge, Pride, Wrath

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

  Mae West

  Toss, Lost, Diamond

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• The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Clever, Church Choir

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• 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

  Summer, Song, Sweet

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

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• In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Heart, Fire, Church

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1965). “Mayakovsky”

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• It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

  Susan Boyle

  Voice, Years, Singing

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• Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Angel, Thinking

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• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Growing Up, Children, Singing

  "She & Him's Perfect Harmony". "Relevant" Interview, relevantmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Dragons

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• In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

  Travis Barker

  Men, Piano, Juniors

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• In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like "I want girls to like me so I don't want to do something that's not cool." But, in fact, if you do something you like to do and you're good at it, you're going to find someone who will like you for that reason.

  Adam DeVine

  Girl, School, Singing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Different, Emotion, Cliche

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• When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

  Enya

  Growing Up, Church Choir, Mum

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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