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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a p...
AARON DIEHL There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY![]()
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I...
KELSEA BALLERINI I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ...
AL JARREAU![]()
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your ch...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our h...
FAITH EVANS![]()
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched re...
TOMMY SHAW![]()
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the...
KELSEA BALLERINI I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I...
CHARLES KING![]()
I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
JIMMY DEAN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN![]()
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style...
LAURA MVULA![]()
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with Go...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY![]()
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi...
IGOR STRAVINSKY I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up mus...
CASSANDRA WILSON Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER![]()
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu...
JOHN LEGEND![]()
I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the hon...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH![]()
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi...
IGOR STRAVINSKY![]()
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
GABBY DOUGLAS![]()
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
AMY GRANT![]()
Poor is the church without music
IRISH SAYINGS The museum is great. I can't believe Joe took this on. It is the perfect complement to the flagship ...
BUTCH SPYRIDON I have always been involved in my school's music program.
MANIKA There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar ...
PAULINA RUBIO![]()
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B...
EARL MONROE![]()
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music a...
RALPH ELLISON![]()
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get marri...
WYNONNA JUDD My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO![]()
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it w...
DR. DRE![]()
Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: ...
IGOR STRAVINSKY Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music...
ISAAC STERN I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON![]()
For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying...
JIMI WESTBROOK![]()
I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a well-regulated church mu...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Pam, who is a librarian in the Allentown School District, is also our music director. There is a lot...
ARA BARLIEB We're a community of music writers, performers and music enthusiasts involved in nontraditional musi...
ERIC GINSBERG![]()
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND![]()
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music...
RUBY ROSE When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piec...
AUDRA MCDONALD![]()
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted ...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the musi...
TAYLOR HACKFORD I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?...
CHAD KIMBALL![]()
Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but...
SHAMEIK MOORE When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
VALERIE JUNE From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ...
TYLER FARR I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
CARTER BURWELL I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
ADAM JONES My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happ...
BARRY MANILOW![]()
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a...
EMMA WATSON![]()
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the s...
CHARLIE PUTH![]()
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho...
FRANCIS COLLINS Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD![]()
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
BRITNEY SPEARS My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ...
SHREYA GHOSHAL I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always m...
SIMONE MANUEL My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL![]()
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r...
LORDE![]()
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...
QUEEN LATIFAH My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE![]()
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
POST MALONE![]()
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ...
LEON BRIDGES When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF![]()
I listen to gospel music.
MARY J. BLIGE Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ...
DARYL HALL My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY She used to sing and dance all over the house. She loved music.
LUCILLE VENTRELLI I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I ...
HOOMAN MAJD Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN![]()
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
WIN BUTLER I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
JEFF HEALEY![]()
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance...
NADIA ALI I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought...
BRUCE COCKBURN I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER![]()
As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
ALEXANDER POPE![]()
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a mag...
LINDSEY STIRLING![]()
In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet m...
DARLENE LOVE![]()
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i...
KELSEA BALLERINI Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP![]()
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of musi...
LAURA MVULA![]()
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ...
CYRILLE AIMEE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
ELLIOTT YAMIN I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES![]()
My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.
SCOTTY MCCREERY I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE
AARON DIEHL There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ...
AL JARREAU
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your ch... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our h...
FAITH EVANS
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched re... TOMMY SHAW
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the... KELSEA BALLERINI I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I...
CHARLES KING
I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview. JIMMY DEAN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style... LAURA MVULA
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with Go... BJ THE CHICAGO KID I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi... IGOR STRAVINSKY I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up mus...
CASSANDRA WILSON Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu... JOHN LEGEND
I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the hon... JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise hi... IGOR STRAVINSKY
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. GABBY DOUGLAS
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. AMY GRANT
Poor is the church without music IRISH SAYINGS The museum is great. I can't believe Joe took this on. It is the perfect complement to the flagship ...
BUTCH SPYRIDON I have always been involved in my school's music program.
MANIKA There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar ...
PAULINA RUBIO
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B... EARL MONROE
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music a... RALPH ELLISON
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c... LEONARD BERNSTEIN I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get marri...
WYNONNA JUDD My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it w... DR. DRE
Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: ... IGOR STRAVINSKY Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music...
ISAAC STERN I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON
For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying... JIMI WESTBROOK
I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a well-regulated church mu... JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Pam, who is a librarian in the Allentown School District, is also our music director. There is a lot...
ARA BARLIEB We're a community of music writers, performers and music enthusiasts involved in nontraditional musi...
ERIC GINSBERG
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ... EZRA POUND
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piec...
AUDRA MCDONALD
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted ... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the musi...
TAYLOR HACKFORD I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?...
CHAD KIMBALL
Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but... SHAMEIK MOORE When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
VALERIE JUNE From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ...
TYLER FARR I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
CARTER BURWELL I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
ADAM JONES My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happ...
BARRY MANILOW
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... EMMA WATSON
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the s... CHARLIE PUTH
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho... FRANCIS COLLINS Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. BRITNEY SPEARS My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ...
SHREYA GHOSHAL I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always m...
SIMONE MANUEL My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w... QUEEN LATIFAH My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. POST MALONE
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus... MIKE LOVE Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ...
LEON BRIDGES When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
I listen to gospel music. MARY J. BLIGE Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ...
DARYL HALL My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY She used to sing and dance all over the house. She loved music.
LUCILLE VENTRELLI I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I ... HOOMAN MAJD Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up... GARY WRIGHT The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
WIN BUTLER I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
JEFF HEALEY
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l... R. KELLY Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance...
NADIA ALI I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought...
BRUCE COCKBURN I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER
As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there. ALEXANDER POPE
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a mag... LINDSEY STIRLING
In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet m... DARLENE LOVE
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i... KELSEA BALLERINI Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of musi... LAURA MVULA
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... TRACY CHAPMAN My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ...
CYRILLE AIMEE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
ELLIOTT YAMIN I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES
My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country. SCOTTY MCCREERY I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE
I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.' 
On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young... 
I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa. 
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. 
To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ... 
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. 
I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then ... 
When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and... 
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from ... 
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. 
Perfection is the child of time. 
Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. 
He is great enough that is his own master. 
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. 
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lo... 
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. 
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. 
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. 
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. 
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ... 
Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance. 
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material righ... 
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn... 