Church Organ Quotes

#1. When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

Larry MacPhail

#2. If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Some men are like a church-organ
you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box
they have four or five thin jingles.

Austin O'Malley

#4. Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

William Shenstone

#5. There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Francis Arinze

#6. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.

Rafal Blechacz

#7. She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.

Arundhati Roy

#8. Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive.

Melody Beattie

#9. I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

Joyce DiDonato

#10. I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.

Robert Glasper

#11. Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.

Ben Oliveira

#12. If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

Philip Yancey

#13. San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

George Halas

#14. No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

John Stuart Mill

#15. When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.

Siri Mitchell

#16. Just keep playing.

Linda Urban

#17. Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Mark Lawrence

#18. It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

James Mill

#19. Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.

Michael Franti

#20. As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Virginia Postrel

#21. Love turns the strongest of men into warriors. When a man has someone to fight for, he's capable of moving mountains."
- Finn, Chosen

Kristen Day

#22. If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world ... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Albert Schweitzer

#23. Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

Scott Meyer

#24. It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#25. Something in Mama's voice was vast and high, like a rainbow; yet something sad and deep, like when the organ played in church, was around Mama's words.

Ralph Ellison

#26. It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Brad Lidge

#27. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Andrew Carnegie