Chorale Quotes

• I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Passion, Writing

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• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

  David Amram

  Listening, Four, Way

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

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• You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

  Jean Houston

  Cells, Ego, Soul

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• The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspiration, Angel, Men

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• Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.

  Hannah Kent

  Memories, Real, Talking

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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