Choir Quotes

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 sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. View quote
Paul Lynde
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! View quote
Leonard Cohen
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. View quote
George Eliot
I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song. View quote
Michael Moore
We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir. View quote
David Cameron
Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship. View quote
Mary Renault
[Choir of] Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. View quote
Isa Bowman
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. View quote
John Milton
A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me. (Anna Akhmatova)
So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours. View quote
John Keats
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. View quote
Fred Allen
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. View quote
Quincy Jones
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. View quote
Travis Barker
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. View quote
Billy Bush
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do. View quote
Charles Osgood
I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that. View quote
Della Reese
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing. View quote
Della Reese
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. (Ernst Zundel)
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy. View quote
Jesse Spencer
I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. View quote
Kristin Chenoweth
I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians. View quote
Michael McMillian
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. View quote
Michael Stipe