Gospel Choir Quotes

#1. You know, I'm too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says ...

David Maraniss

#2. The Living do everything so vibrantly, the Dead think. Their blood sprays like party champagne, they hoot and howl like a gospel choir. Even in their agony, they are enviable.

Isaac Marion

#3. I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Brian Eno

#4. When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

Brad Paisley

#5. I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Charles King

#6. I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

Mandy Patinkin

#7. I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

Kiesza

#8. If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Mark Helprin

#9. Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

Marvin Sapp

#10. It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

Dixie Carter

#11. I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties
or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.

Silver RavenWolf

#12. 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

#13. We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Marla Gibbs

#14. Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"

John Hagee

#15. In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

B.B. King

#16. The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

Orlando Bloom

#17. Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.

Leon Bridges

#18. Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Bill Gates

#19. Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

Beth Myrle Rice

#20. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Baron De Montesquieu