Quotes about Chorus

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus. Votes: 6

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York. Votes: 6

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life. Votes: 5

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. Votes: 4

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. Votes: 4

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line. Votes: 4

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. Votes: 4

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too. Votes: 4

I hate the way chorus boxes sound Votes: 3

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus. Votes: 3

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized. Votes: 3

Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he! Votes: 3

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. Votes: 3

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans. Votes: 3

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V Votes: 3

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you. Votes: 3

I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Wicked, you name it! Votes: 3

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. Votes: 3

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie. Votes: 3

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers. Votes: 3

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. Votes: 3

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything. Votes: 3

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. Votes: 3

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. Votes: 3

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. Votes: 3

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York. Votes: 3

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.' Votes: 3

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range. Votes: 3

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple. Votes: 3

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. Votes: 3

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus. Votes: 2

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. Votes: 1

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy. Votes: 1

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions. Votes: 1

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. Votes: 1

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish. Votes: 1

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. Votes: 1

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts. Votes: 1

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have. Votes: 1

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since. Votes: 1

I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play with her. I take two classes at middle school, math and chorus, and I love walking home with her after school. Votes: 1

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds. Votes: 1

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. Votes: 1

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. Votes: 1

Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere. Votes: 1

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me. Votes: 1

It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine. Votes: 1

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back. Votes: 1

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. Votes: 0

You can't look too old for the chorus. Votes: 0

In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling! Votes: 0

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. Votes: 0

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line. Votes: 0

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal. Votes: 0

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. Votes: 0

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. Votes: 0

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off. Votes: 0

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. Votes: 0

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve. Votes: 0

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. Votes: 0

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. Votes: 0

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions Votes: 0

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! Votes: 0

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. Votes: 0

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students Votes: 0

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music. Votes: 0

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti. Votes: 0

Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94) Votes: 0

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. Votes: 0

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours. Votes: 0

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing. Votes: 0

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. Votes: 0

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music. Votes: 0

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus Votes: 0

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall. Votes: 0

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus! Votes: 0

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. Votes: 0

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ... Votes: 0

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! Votes: 0

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. Votes: 0

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. Votes: 0

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made. Votes: 0

gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"'Is there a chorus?'"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' said Hwel.'You left out a "gold" there. Votes: 0

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event. Votes: 0

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops. Votes: 0

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop. Votes: 0

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised. Votes: 0

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.' Votes: 0

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change. Votes: 0

The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead. Votes: 0

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook. Votes: 0

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn't know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus. Votes: 0

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song. Votes: 0

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus. Votes: 0

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus Votes: 0

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation. Votes: 0

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders. Votes: 0

One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus. Votes: 0

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back. Votes: 0

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do. Votes: 0

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. Votes: 0

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? Votes: 0

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them? Votes: 0

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band. Votes: 0

Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to. Votes: 0

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms? Votes: 0

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace. Votes: 0

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared. Votes: 0

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus. Votes: 0

Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars. Votes: 0

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it. Votes: 0

People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to hold hands and cry. It's just a different personality type. Votes: 0

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing. Votes: 0