Quotes About Choir Singing

#1. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

Roger Ebert

#2. My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

Keke Palmer

#3. I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

Aubrey Plaza

#4. 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

#5. I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Cassandra Wilson

#6. What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?

Joan Countryman

#7. The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. You are singing to the preacher," said J.Lo.
"Preaching to the choir," I corrected him.
"Yes. This thing.

Adam Rex

#9. I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Tom Jones

#10. The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chris Albrecht

#11. 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

#12. The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

Brian Tracy

#13. It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

Susan Boyle

#14. ...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.

David Welch

#15. Rod from his pocket. The Earthman croaked, "That's a psychic probe." His words were slurred,

Isaac Asimov

#16. I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.

Sara Sheridan

#17. I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

Katherine Jenkins

#18. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,

Helen Keller

#19. Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

James Weldon Johnson

#20. I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Merry Clayton

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances - the notion that it could not be treated with moderation - was a notion largely confined to black people.

Calvin Trillin

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

Kavita Ramdas

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

Maynard Jackson

#28. 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

#29. It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Paul Di Filippo

#30. History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Alan Bean

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Stark Sands

#35. I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Brooke Shields

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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