Quotes About Sacred music

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action.

I'm not religious but there's something about being in a church at Christmas and listening to a choir sing.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

Singing together [das gemeinsame Lied] joins the praying of the Psalms and the reading of the Scriptures. In this, the voice of the church is heard in praise, thanksgiving, and intercession.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

The hymn,' with which the Paschal Supper ended, had been sung. Probably we are to understand this of the second portion of the Hallel, [5818] sung some time after the third Cup, or else of Psalm cxxxvi., which, in the present Ritual, stands near the end of the service.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.

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For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.