Choral Singing Quotes

#1. When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

Eric Whitacre

#2. I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

Matana Roberts

#3. To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Ronnie Barker

#4. A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

Dalai Lama

#5. After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan

#6. Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#7. Weapons of war have no place on our streets

Barack Obama

#8. I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#9. It was this very thing, it seemed to him now, which had been his sickness before: that he was not able to love anybody or anything. Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

#10. It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood

#11. Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

Eve Best

#12. Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#13. Not everyone likes all our flavors, but each flavor is someone's favorite.

Irv Robbins

#14. Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

Billy Joel

#15. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Bertrand Russell

#16. There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

Sugata Mitra

#17. We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.

Sherrod Brown

#18. Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

Neil Diamond

#19. I want you to remember who you are. Remember the man you were when we met? That man. The man that said I'm going to marry that woman.

Lucian Bane