Moby Quotes

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

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.

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

My father started me singing in church.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

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.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants.

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

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

I grew up in the church.

I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.