Quotes About Choir

#1. There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

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

Connie Willis

#3. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.

Pearl Zhu

#4. She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that - oh, that was thirty years ago.

Susan Glaspell

#5. This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

Kavita Ramdas

#6. Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

Cheech Marin

#7. I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

John C. Reilly

#8. I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

Kate Clinton

#9. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

Kaz Cooke

#10. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Mae West

#11. I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

Eric Whitacre

#12. To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.

Eric Whitacre

#13. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

#14. 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

#15. My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

Alexander Chee

#16. I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

Dominic Cooper

#17. I was the star of the choir.

Jai Rodriguez

#18. Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history receives him. A legitimate culture accepts his voice into the choir of a great community.

Theodor Lessing

#19. I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

John Updike

#20. Earlier today I had sex with a monkey and then roasted and ate it with a glass of choir boys' piss. I like to get in the mood.

Peter Milligan

#21. I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

Woody Harrelson

#22. 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

#23. I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

Michelle Branch

#24. It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

Alice Cooper

#25. A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands.

Mary E. Pearson

#26. As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#27. He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

Elton John

#28. 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

#29. I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.

Julian Ovenden

#30. 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

#31. In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Lucas Grabeel

#32. I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

Josh Young

#33. Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

#34. The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

Greg Graffin

#35. Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease ...

William Butler Yeats

#36. She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

William Shakespeare

#37. Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Anne Lamott

#38. The youth choir is up onstage now, in flowing white gowns, and they're singing something in the key of goose-bumps.

A.S. King

#39. I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

Stark Sands

#40. A choir of heavy-set Helgas pointed him out, and Thomas Mamer came storming towards the dirty fruit.

Markus Zusak

#41. I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

John Legend

#42. When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

Isa Bowman

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

Fred Allen

#44. When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.

Eric Whitacre

#45. The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Bret Easton Ellis

#46. To be in the company of a Close friend is like the Beautiful Hymns of Heaven,Beware when these Beautiful Hymns start to become a choir of evilness,Now your the decider whether to Live in their Company or Leave their Company in search of a better one,For the best is just Pseudo

Abhishek Sundarraman

#47. I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

Kimbra

#48. I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

Ernst Zundel

#49. One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

Bob Dylan

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

Taylor Swift

#51. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

John Milton

#52. I was a country kid who went to a public school, and she was more of a middle-class girl who attended a private school. I was into hunting and fishing, and she liked drama and singing in the choir at school and church. Our lives up until that point were totally different.

Jase Robertson

#53. 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

#54. An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#55. People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

Isaac Hecker

#56. All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

George Berkeley

#57. I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

Fiona Shaw

#58. It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.

Zooey Deschanel

#59. I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

Bat For Lashes

#60. My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

John Tesh

#61. I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Lily Allen

#62. I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

Christine Woods

#63. Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live.

Hannah Johnson

#64. The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Glenda Jackson

#65. The Vienna Boys Choir decked out in top hats and evil clown make-up could be directly next to me pole-vaulting over giant rotating knives and I'd never know because I'm gazing into the distance deliberating some vaguely imperceptible angst.

Bill Gray

#66. I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

Neil Kinnock

#67. There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

Tom Jones

#68. I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

Lea Michele

#69. we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush.
i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

Tyehimba Jess

#70. My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Mavis Staples

#71. I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.

Renee Fleming

#72. I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

Zooey Deschanel

#73. I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

Pat Conroy

#74. Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
How sang the angelic choir that day,
When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Frederick William Faber

#75. Adam!' said Danny. 'You mustn't drop out of the choir. We have too much to do. What do we have to do?

Dorothy Dunnett

#76. I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

Daphne Guinness

#77. You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

Buddy Wakefield

#78. 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

#79. Not coincidentally, there is something reminiscent of a minister and his flock, or perhaps a choir leader and his singers, in the final effect. Even the yoke of the Master's robe matches that of a man of the pulpit. After

Jackey Neyman Jones

#80. Freddy Mercury's reflections about supersonic women are making me glad that I've never met one: they sound like a bit of a handful - not very easy-going.

Sophie Hannah

#81. So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

John Keats

#82. Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Carlos Santana

#83. 58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

Cindy Sheehan

#84. How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

Charles Baudelaire

#85. There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

Wynton Marsalis

#86. I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

Michael Moore

#87. A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

#88. Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

Della Reese

#89. 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

Sydney Wayser

#90. I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Blake Lively

#91. I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Elizabeth Moon

#92. In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

Travis Barker

#93. I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

Jason Reeves

#94. I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

Tina Fey

#95. The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

Keith Getty

#96. When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

Bonnie McKee

#97. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

George Eliot

#98. My focus went to one spot. The spot where we knelt and called the Second Choir, praying for them to save her, only to be denied again.

Ashlan Thomas

#99. 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

#100. I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

Greg Graffin