Quotes About Gregorian Chant

#1. I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

Elie Wiesel

#2. Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

Simone Weil

#3. She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as though it was a piece of urban Gregorian chant, Where have you been?

Anna Quindlen

#4. An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you a privileged form of prayer. You are drawn to it because you perceive the link between music and the sacred, between beauty and truth.

Jacques Hourlier

#6. 'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

John Tavener

#7. Kami," he said, "you're crying."
"No, I am not," Kami lied. "I got something in my eye."
"You got something in your eye."
"Yes. Possibly a speck of dust," Kami said, and broke down. "All right, possibly my feelings.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#8. Walk like you know where you're going, and you will surely get there.

Mary Kathryn Johnson

#9. That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!

Ford Madox Ford

#10. I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

Stevie Wonder

#11. I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number ... She looked great going down the stairs.

Milton Jones

#12. When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Marguerite Duras

#13. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

Regina Brett

#14. Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep ...

John Milton

#15. The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

B.W. Powe

#16. I just am a believer ... that there are some things that happen for a reason ... We may not be able to really discern it now ... [but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.

Eric Cantor

#17. You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton