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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
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. -- Q-Tip
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
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
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition. -- Richard Morris
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church. -- Valerie June
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
Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music. -- Lizzo
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it. -- Patricia Heaton
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
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
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully. -- Francis Collins
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul. -- Daryl Hall
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming. -- Sherri Shepherd
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
There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. -- Ernie Isley
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 love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. -- Laura Mvula
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 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 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 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
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
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
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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