Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hall

When we go out to sing, we are unofficially recruiting people to the school. After they hear the choir sing, they want to come to VCU.

Paul Robeson

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. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Kelly Rowland

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

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.

'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.

Kelsea Ballerini

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.

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.

Blake Lively

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!

To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that.

Jeffrey Miller

We have a good number of long-term members, as well as some newer members, which makes for a nice mix. We're famous for our choir - we have a fabulous choir director. And I think many people continue to enjoy our traditional style of worship service.

We have a lot of strong singers in the choir right now, so I figured if I'm going to do the 'St. John Passion,' now is the time to jump.

When the children's choir does presentations, it's hard to pick them up (on microphone) when they are moving around. In a matter of a couple hours, they will have completely recorded all the music to their musical.

Soccer, right now, is kind of his safe place because he's good at it. He's comfortable. He kind of directs the choir in the back.

There were a lot of different things. The choir was a good addition. It's nice to get a little gospel here and there.

Florence Welch

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

Rachel Platten

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

Anne Dudley

I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of choirs and the English pastoral music I used to hear when growing up. I was also inspired by the textures and rhythmic vitality of the so-called minimalists, Philip Glass and John Adams, and I'm always intrigued by the sound of the recording studio.

David White

The show is an extension of our mission statement. This is taking us one step further in developing young professional musicians, so for me it?s in between the youth orchestra and children?s choir and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra.

I speak to the congregation at the end of every Mass, and I mentioned that we need to follow the teaching on Jesus Christ like the members of the choir follow Molly. They never take their eyes off her. They are a community within a community.

That gets really expensive. I know kids who are not in choir because they don?t have the money to pay for it.

Kix Brooks

It's a doggone Tucson choir out here on 'Neon Moon.' Y'all are good.

Eric Johnson

This is one time where the choir out-numbers the audience.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a school that did not provide a full string, wind, choir program for everybody.

You get to see it all in show choir ? Broadway, pop, cowboy tap dancing and comedy.