Richard Morris Quotes

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.

I listen to a lot of 'Ave Maria.'

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into the history of music, inevitably you're going to have to get into sacred religious music.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

All of the great music ever written is based upon the Mass. I mean, it's pretty extraordinary stuff, and I think it's done the world some good. And if you take a look at some of the mosques in the world, it calls you to worship the kind of beauty that's in there.

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

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

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional; it's very monotone.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.