Church Music Quotes: top 48 famous quotes about Church Music

Church Music Quotes & Sayings

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The music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. — Joyce Carol Oates

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. — Laura Mvula

The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey, said Herbert. — Harper Lee

Country music is basically one-third a part of Southern blood, the other two being church and sweet tea. — Eve Jagger

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child. — Ian Anderson

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. — Desiderius Erasmus

In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating. — Darlene Love

I've always made music that was representative of real life. — Eric Church

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica. — Matt Weber

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. — Amy Grant

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, — Enya

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard. — John Wesley

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

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. — Big Boi

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. — Madonna Ciccone

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood. — Tweet

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service. — Andrew Carnegie

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church. — Richard Wagner

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. — T.D. Jakes

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall. — M. Ward

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. — Q-Tip

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. — Mavis Staples

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship. — Gordon B. Hinckley

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. — Bruce Springsteen

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise. — Kris Vallotton

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old. — Willie Dixon

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life. — Carlos Santana

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter. — Daniel Dennett

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life. — Eric Church

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant. — Virginia Smith

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive. — Eric Church

As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there. — Alexander Pope

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. — Laura Mvula

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. — Richard Morris

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound

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. — Kelsea Ballerini

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. — Eric Church

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. — Steven Van Zandt

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along. — Eric Church

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. — Eric Church

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. — Missi Pyle

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? — Tex Sample

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house. — Estelle

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. — Alain De Botton

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. — Ernie Isley

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. — Lady Gaga