Choir Quotes - Page 8

• I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.

  Bjork

  Writing, Past, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Sound, Elements

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• I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

  Greg Graffin

  Kids, Years, Records

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• I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

  Lea Michele

  School, Play, People

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• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  Carlos Santana

  Children, Ocean, Wind

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Swings

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• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  Mandy Patinkin

  School, Boys, House

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• I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

  Annie Lennox

  Girl, Voice, Competition

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• In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

  Adam Lambert

  Drama, School, Remember

  "Adam Lambert: The kids understand". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

  Noam Chomsky

  Movement, Kind, Activist

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

  Lily Allen

  School, Voice, Taught

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Religious, Church

  Song: Inmates, Album: From the Inside, 1978

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• When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

  Isa Bowman

  Time, Boys, Conceited

  Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”

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• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Errors, Age

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.

  Lois Gibbs

  Health, Lessons To Be Learned, Voice

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• To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Joy, Males, Choral Music

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• Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

  Jesse Spencer

  Nightmare, Rebellious, Mum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

  Christopher Moore

  Eight, Phones, Blue

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Boys, Age, Window

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Eye, Imagination

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.375, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Airplane, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.198, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

  Michelle Branch

  Geek, Theater

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I can hear the library humming in the night,
  a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
  along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
  Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
  each one stitched into his own private coat,
  together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Son, Night

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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• I was in choir [at school].

  Jon Gordon

  School

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• I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

  Emily Saliers

  Church Choir, Harmony, Term

  "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.

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