Religious Music Quotes

• Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Music, Religious, Teaching

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• I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Church, Force

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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• God needs to get rescued from religious music.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Religious, Needs

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• Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Religious, World, Used

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Religious, Ears, Music Education

  Source: thequietus.com

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• And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I woke up - just before waking up one morning, I sort of dreamt this song or the idea of it and the first little bit of it. And I jumped out of bed and I thought, well, you're still asleep. You're going to forget this in a minute - you know, like you do when you've had a dream.

  Nick Lowe

  Dream, Song, Religious

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Religious, Singing, Zealous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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