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In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet m...
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My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ...
JOE GIBBS I've always loved gospel, ... My mom was involved in church music. I sang a lot in church. It's an o...
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And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your ch...
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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It ...
JOHN IRVING I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-Amer...
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I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of o...
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Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu...
RUSSELL BRAND I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus...
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My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li...
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Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I live...
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LARRY MARTIN When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
CAITLIN ROSE![]()
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s...
ALICE WALKER What we've created is a really friendly environment with relevant teaching, cool music, free food an...
MIKE ASH![]()
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi...
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '...
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The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
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DORIS NORTHAM I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; ...
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white communit...
JAMES EARL JONES![]()
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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ZULEIKHA ROBINSON It was church, totally church. Even with all of the reporters they flew in, it turned from a recordi...
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Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you a...
BRIDGET WILLARD![]()
Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch...
BRIDGET WILLARD![]()
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ...
JOYCE MEYER If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER![]()
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f...
HENRY ROLLINS![]()
It's a big spooky place when you're in it alone. It's like you can hear all the whispers of all the ...
BENJAMIN R. SMITH![]()
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after di...
WILL.I.AM![]()
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS![]()
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something t...
FLEA The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
WIN BUTLER I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
BERNARD EBBERS When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ...
ERIC WEDDLE![]()
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn&#...
TOMMY CHONG![]()
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was ve...
GRACE JONES Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ...
DARYL HALL My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that'...
GREG BOYLE I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM![]()
I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a ...
BERNHARD LANGER![]()
I definitely have a relationship with God for myself, and yes I grew up that way, and I choose to ke...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID![]()
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal ...
AJ MICHALKA I knew we needed to do something. We're a large church with big, open arms,
ANDREA COOK You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, mea...
BETH GIBBONS![]()
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leav...
CAM NEWTON I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to...
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Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho...
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When I grew up, I listened to older stuff too, ... My own kids went through their teenage raving stu...
KEITH RICHARDS![]()
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
ALICE WALKER It's been a long road. You go to church to feel as if you belong to something, you're part of someth...
CHARLENE PINAO![]()
Church isn’t where you meet. Church isnâ€â�...
BRIDGET WILLARD I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentali...
MARVIN SAPP![]()
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
A. N. WILSON if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. Wha...
ROD DREHER When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se...
YOUNG JEEZY![]()
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau...
DAVID CROSBY I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it wa...
ANTON CORBIJN![]()
Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the ...
UNKNOWN![]()
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
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My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has t...
HENRY FONDA What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ...
AL JARREAU A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa...
RUSTY ANDERSON![]()
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
DEBORAH NORVILLE When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to wo...
PATTY GRIFFIN At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my ma...
GARETH GATES Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in...
KENNETH S. KANTZER The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It c...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN![]()
The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It c...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN![]()
Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s...
J. K. SIMMONS
ALLEN BAILEY I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ...
AL JARREAU
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her f... SHERRI SHEPHERD I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just f...
WESLEY SCHULTZ I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a p...
AARON DIEHL My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our h...
FAITH EVANS
In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet m... DARLENE LOVE
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI I was sitting in church and it came to me that I should go and help. And when you get a thought like...
DON TRENT There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with Go... BJ THE CHICAGO KID
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS I've always loved gospel, ... My mom was involved in church music. I sang a lot in church. It's an o...
JACK HALL
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the... KELSEA BALLERINI When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your ch... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It ... JOHN IRVING I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-Amer... TA-NEHISI COATES
I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of o... CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu... RUSSELL BRAND I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus...
KRISTIN CHENOWETH
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depr... MOBY I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six...
SAM BRADFORD
Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are... BRIDGET WILLARD I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?...
CHAD KIMBALL As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were g...
SYLVIA ROBINSON
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I live... JESSICA SIMPSON Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
CAITLIN ROSE
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s... ALICE WALKER What we've created is a really friendly environment with relevant teaching, cool music, free food an...
MIKE ASH
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi... IGOR STRAVINSKY
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... JIDENNA
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn... KATHERINE JENKINS
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. AMY GRANT When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; ...
PENNY PRITZKER
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters,... ZACH ANNER
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white communit...
JAMES EARL JONES
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot. PATRICK WILSON
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus... MIKE LOVE When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me ...
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON It was church, totally church. Even with all of the reporters they flew in, it turned from a recordi...
DOTTIE PEOPLES
Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you a... BRIDGET WILLARD
Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch... BRIDGET WILLARD
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ... JOYCE MEYER If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f... HENRY ROLLINS
It's a big spooky place when you're in it alone. It's like you can hear all the whispers of all the ... BENJAMIN R. SMITH
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after di... WILL.I.AM
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something t... FLEA The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
WIN BUTLER I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
BERNARD EBBERS When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ...
ERIC WEDDLE
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn&#... TOMMY CHONG
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was ve... GRACE JONES Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ...
DARYL HALL My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that'...
GREG BOYLE I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM
I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a ... BERNHARD LANGER
I definitely have a relationship with God for myself, and yes I grew up that way, and I choose to ke... BJ THE CHICAGO KID
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal ... AJ MICHALKA I knew we needed to do something. We're a large church with big, open arms,
ANDREA COOK You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, mea...
BETH GIBBONS
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leav... CAM NEWTON I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to...
WIN BUTLER
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho... FRANCIS COLLINS
When I grew up, I listened to older stuff too, ... My own kids went through their teenage raving stu... KEITH RICHARDS
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. ALICE WALKER It's been a long road. You go to church to feel as if you belong to something, you're part of someth...
CHARLENE PINAO
Church isn’t where you meet. Church isnâ€â�... BRIDGET WILLARD I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentali...
MARVIN SAPP
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out. A. N. WILSON if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. Wha...
ROD DREHER When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se...
YOUNG JEEZY
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau... DAVID CROSBY I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it wa...
ANTON CORBIJN
Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the ... UNKNOWN
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ... EZRA POUND When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
VALERIE JUNE
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has t... HENRY FONDA What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ...
AL JARREAU A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa...
RUSTY ANDERSON
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday. DEBORAH NORVILLE When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to wo...
PATTY GRIFFIN At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my ma...
GARETH GATES Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in...
KENNETH S. KANTZER The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It c...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It c... JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s... J. K. SIMMONS
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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet p... 
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. 
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. 
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc... 
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. 
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extend... 
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The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it nece... 
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to whic... 
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. 
But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�... 
I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film... 
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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world. 
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro... 