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Quotes About Choir

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
~ Fiona Shaw
I was a part of my school choir and used to participate in several singing competitions back then.
~ Raashi Khanna
Japanese "indifference to the Mystery of the Universe," my cousin's great-grandfather was wise enough to add, "is that which enables them to give more time and to spend more energy on the solution of the problems nearer at hand." · That same indifference binds them together, because there's no need for individual speculation or debate in a choir; Shinto, lacking arguments, cannot be refuted.
~ Pico Iyer
You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
~ Omari Hardwick
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
~ Greg Graffin
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.
~ Shakira
In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
~ Adam Lambert
I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
~ Katherine Jenkins
The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.
~ Carrie Underwood
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.
~ Steve Harvey
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.'
~ Merry Clayton
I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.
~ Ann-Margret
That scrawny cry—It wasA chorister whose c preceded the choir.It was part of the colossal sun.
~ Wallace Stevens
Adam!' said Danny. 'You mustn't drop out of the choir. We have too much to do. What do we have to do?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
DETCHANT (n.) That part of a hymn (usually a few notes at the end of a verse) where the tune goes so high or low that you suddenly have to change octaves to accommodate it.
~ Douglas Adams
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
~ Kacy Hill
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.
~ Michael Franti
My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.
~ Marc Martel
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
~ Kimbra
What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.
~ Katie Melua
I'm not religious but there's something about being in a church at Christmas and listening to a choir sing.
~ Edith Bowman
I sang in choir as a kid.
~ Scott Weiland
I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit of a voice.
~ Chi Chi DeVayne
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
~ William Safire