John Cooper Clarke Quotes

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me.

The idea of music coming from the Church is not new.

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

My father started me singing in church.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.