Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

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

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.

I've known for a very long time that making music for the church has been my calling.

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

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

When I was little I was into gospel music.

Aartis and spiritual songs never get dated.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

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

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

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

Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church.

My family don't listen to R&B - never have, never will. They only listen to gospel. That's where I get my voice from. I got a gospel voice.

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

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.

I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.

I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.