Choir Quotes - Page 9

• My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

  John Ashbery

  Moving, Political Revolution, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  Trent Reznor

  Marketing, Found, Preaching

  "The nine lives of Trent Reznor". Interview with Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

  Michael McMillian

  Christian, Mother, Sunday

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• The whole first two-thirds of the I Just Can't Stop Loving You song is just he and I. He's singing lead and I'm doing all the harmonies and we're both singing all the background. We're singing all the choruses until the choir comes in. We were the first two-thirds of the song.

  Siedah Garrett

  Song, Loving You, Singing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Long, Musical

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

  Jennifer Hudson

  Girl, Church Choir, Voice

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• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Teacher, Drama, School

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

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• The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

  Mark Twain

  Church Choir, Atheism, Forgotten

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition”, p.32, NewSouth Books

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• I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.

  Eric Whitacre

  Thinking, Speak, Internet

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• Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Rome, Bed

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• I sang in choir as a kid.

  Scott Weiland

  Kids

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• I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

  Tom Jones

  Singing, My Own

  "Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me'". Interview With Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2010.

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• He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

  Elton John

  Religious, Drinking, Angel

  Song: Religion Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.

  Max von Essen

  Long, Singing, Done

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I don't just want to talk to the choir. I want to sit down and be respectful of the people who are most unlike me, to get them to hear me and think. It doesn't mean you're going to change them right there, but just so they can hear you and what you're saying.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  School, Play, Ballet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Interview: Madonna reviews life". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 19, 1999.

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• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

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• When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.

  Eileen Myles

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lenses, World, Orthodox

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

  Tweet

  Art, School, Blood

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Eight, People, Needs

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Art, Kids

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Temptation, Want, Might

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