Choir Quotes - Page 4

• I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

  John Legend

  Men, Groups, Fronts

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• All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

  Mario Bunge

  Liars, Hypocrite, Joining

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.

  Panda Bear

  Writing, School, Ideas

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• Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

  Dan Savage

  Triumph, Doe, Arms

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

  Kimbra

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Should Have, Singing

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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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.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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

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• A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Tree, Forever, Forests

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.443, Faber & Faber

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• Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  People, Singing, Listening

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Church Choir, Grace

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• [Donald] Trump saying I haven't invited [A-listers], I don't want 'em, I want the real people here. Got the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, People, Ems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

  Ben Barnes

  School, Years, Age

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• I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

  Florence Welch

  Obsessed, Overwhelming, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

  Roger Ross Williams

  Community, Southern, Style

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.

  Mary Renault

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

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• I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

  Stark Sands

  School, Singing, Band

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

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• As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

  Rachel Lambert Mellon

  Children, Years, Church

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• Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Moving, Black

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

  Liz Jensen

  Hangover, Night, Tangled

  Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

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• I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

  Phil Elvrum

  Ideas, Preaching, Seems

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

  Alexander Chee

  Boys, Voice, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

  George Eliot

  Mind, May, Invisible

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

  Michael Parkinson

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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