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For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house. -- Estelle
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. -- Richard Morris
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. -- T. D. Jakes
There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. -- Ernie Isley
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. -- Q-Tip
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. -- Laura Mvula
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. -- James Weldon Johnson
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 was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. -- Tommy Shaw
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
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
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration. -- Jackie DeShannon
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. -- Cam Newton
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you. -- Randy Owen
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime. -- Mike Love
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral. -- Win Butler
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school. -- Faith Evans
I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not. -- Chris Stapleton
For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. -- Moby
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. -- Eric Church
My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. -- Madonna Ciccone
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, -- Enya
We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. -- Big Boi
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. -- Amy Grant
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there. -- Alexander Pope
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church. -- Richard Wagner
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? -- Tex Sample
I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. -- Alain de Botton
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. -- Steven Van Zandt
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. -- Mavis Staples
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music. -- Hailey Rhode Baldwin
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. -- Ezra Pound
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all "? but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. -- Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven. -- George Bernard Shaw
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith. -- Richard Morris
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out -- Tommy Shaw
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
Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. -- Igor Stravinsky
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays. -- Rodney Stark
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music. -- Igor Stravinsky

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