120 Choir Quotes for You to Enjoy

Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in. Luis Fonsi

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Our mandate is to sing for everyone. We don't just sing for one group or sing one genre... This is everybody's choir. Mack Wilberg

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There are probably limits on what the choir can sing well. Mack Wilberg

Sing Well Limits Choir

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir. Mandy Patinkin

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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir. Mavis Staples

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

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After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health. Michael Pollan

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I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds - singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice. Michelle Visage

You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor. Omari Hardwick

You Church Tell Visitor Sing How Go Choir

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. Rachel Lambert Mellon

Church Had Years Dune Child Choir Sang Many Lived

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't. Rita Ora

Teacher You Know Always Off Getting Choir

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?' Roger Ross Williams

I went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir. But for all that the church gave me - for all that it represented belonging, love and community - it also shut its doors to me as a gay person. That experience left me with the lifelong desire to explore the power of religion to transform lives or destroy them. Roger Ross Williams

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I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obsessed about music, somehow feeling how 'big' it is and is what it can give us. For me, this was when I got to be as a 9-year-old on stage, performing in Verdi's Otello in the children's choir. Ruth Reinhardt

I did choir in high school, but I didn't sing professionally anywhere ever. Scott Michael Foster

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I sang in choir as a kid. Scott Weiland

Kid Choir Sang

I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued. Sharon Van Etten

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I used to think this notion of preaching to the choir was a problem, and we kind of use it in a bit of a pejorative sense... but I've actually grown to adopt that perspective that the choir needs good preaching - they need good information. They need good tools and insight. Shaun King

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band. Stark Sands

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Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. Steven Curtis Chapman

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'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously. Sydney Wayser

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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. Tahar Ben Jelloun

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