D'Angelo Quotes

Music was brought up in the church.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Church singing is a great training ground.

In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that.

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

Singing is a prayer to me.

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

My dad was a preacher.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I used to think God only liked organ music.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

The Lord always comes first in our lives, and then everything else comes second. And so with my music and with my platform, I have places to talk about the Lord and His goodness.

Music is like church to me. It's as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.