Choir Quotes

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.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

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

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

And I've teamed up with a choir from home. They're called the Gori Women's Choir. They're a 23-piece all-female choir, and they've been going since the '70s.

My father started me singing in church.

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

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.

When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

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.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

I went to church as a kid, but mainly for the showbiz aspect. I remember doing a solo of 'The Little Drummer Boy' and everyone singing the rup-a-pum-pums.

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 really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.