Choir Director Quotes

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!

I think, initially, my rebellion, my rebellion of going to college when my dad would have liked me to stay home and work in the herbs, I think that it was a pretty mild rebellion in the sense that I thought, 'Well, I'm going to go learn how to be a music teacher so that I can come home and do choir.'

I was the star of the choir.

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.