Church Choir Quotes

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

  Paul Lynde

  Funny, Life, Family

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

  Connie Willis

  Needs, World, Belief

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• My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Home, Sunday

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

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• The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Hymns, Singing

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• I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.

  Taylor Swift

  Night, Karaoke, Shows

  "What It's Really Like to Be Taylor Swift's Second Cousin, Taylor Swift". Interview with Hannah Orenstein, www.seventeen.com. December 24, 2015.

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• I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Memories, School, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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, Grace, Would Be

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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, Voice, People

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Clever, Two

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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, Mum, Church

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

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• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, School, Singing

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• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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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

  Atheism, Forgotten, Ill

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

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

  Emily Saliers

  Harmony, Term, Church

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

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.

  Deniece Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  Samantha Barks

  Play, Rocks, Ballet

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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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