Quotes about Choir

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do. Votes: 5

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. Votes: 5

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. Votes: 4

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Votes: 4

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. Votes: 4

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Votes: 4

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. Votes: 4

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir! Votes: 3

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Votes: 3

When people ask what's on my iPod, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Votes: 3

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir. Votes: 3

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? Votes: 3

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. Votes: 3

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. Votes: 3

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. Votes: 3

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. Votes: 3

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. Votes: 3

[Donald] Trump saying I haven't invited [A-listers], I don't want 'em, I want the real people here. Got the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Votes: 3

[Donald] Trump saying I haven't invited [A-listers], I don't want 'em, I want the real people here. Got the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Votes: 3

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing Votes: 3

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church. Votes: 3

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do. Votes: 3

Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously. Votes: 3

% 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. Votes: 3

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. Votes: 3

The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all. Votes: 3

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for. Votes: 3

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us. Votes: 3

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. Votes: 3

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Votes: 3

There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors. Votes: 3

As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains in South Africa, and that's when everything started to change for me and I realised that music is my thing. Votes: 3

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. Votes: 3

I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart. Votes: 3

There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul. Votes: 3

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light. Votes: 3

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. Votes: 1

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. Votes: 1

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir. Votes: 1

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing. Votes: 1

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else. Votes: 1

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there. Votes: 1

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. Votes: 1

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. Votes: 1

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires. Votes: 1

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. Votes: 1

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Votes: 1

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. Votes: 1

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting. Votes: 1

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. Votes: 1

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. Votes: 1

I sang in choir as a kid. Votes: 0

We don't live. We're miming in the choir. Votes: 0

I was definitely a choir and theater geek. Votes: 0

I was an altar boy and a choir member. Votes: 0

You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps. Votes: 0

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song. Votes: 0

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire Votes: 0

The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience. Votes: 0

So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours. Votes: 0

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song. Votes: 0

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir. Votes: 0

A single voice cannot make a choir. A single tree cannot make a forest. Votes: 0

I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet. Votes: 0

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band. Votes: 0

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. Votes: 0

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform. Votes: 0

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. Votes: 0

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Votes: 0

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. Votes: 0

I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night. Votes: 0

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. Votes: 0

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. Votes: 0

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs. Votes: 0

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost. Votes: 0

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love. Votes: 0

The youth choir is up onstage now, in flowing white gowns, and they're singing something in the key of goose-bumps. Votes: 0

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs. Votes: 0

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. Votes: 0

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. Votes: 0

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. Votes: 0

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama. Votes: 0

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her. Votes: 0

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church. Votes: 0

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups. Votes: 0

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective. Votes: 0

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! Votes: 0

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing. Votes: 0

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays. Votes: 0

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies. Votes: 0

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. Votes: 0

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir. Votes: 0

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir. Votes: 0

For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. Votes: 0

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, Im preaching to the choir. Votes: 0

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track. Votes: 0

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. Votes: 0

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like. Votes: 0

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice. Votes: 0

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was. Votes: 0

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army. Votes: 0

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world. Votes: 0

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'. Votes: 0

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal. Votes: 0

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. Votes: 0

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that. Votes: 0

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. Votes: 0

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away? Votes: 0

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood. Votes: 0

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported. Votes: 0

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want. Votes: 0

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note. Votes: 0

A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me... Votes: 0

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. Votes: 0

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir. Votes: 0

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir. Votes: 0

I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there. Votes: 0

Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself. Votes: 0

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window. Votes: 0

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go. Votes: 0

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after. Votes: 0

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Votes: 0

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music. Votes: 0

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much. Votes: 0

I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.' Votes: 0

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. Votes: 0

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats. Votes: 0

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it. Votes: 0

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school. Votes: 0