Martin Luther Quotes

I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses.

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

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

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

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.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

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

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 feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

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.

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

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

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

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

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

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. There isn't much of that anymore either. There are very few poems people can recite, but there are quite a few hymns that, if you hum a few bars, people can at least come up with two verses. Many of the older hymns are very beautiful.