Mack Wilberg Quotes

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.

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.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

I went to church as a kid, but mainly for the showbiz aspect. I remember doing a solo of 'The Little Drummer Boy' and everyone singing the rup-a-pum-pums.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

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.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

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.'

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.

We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

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.

In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

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.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

Music was brought up in the church.

I know the Lamb of God guys. They're way mellow.

We're quite different from each other. Camila is the pop girl, Lauren likes the indie sound, Normani and I love R&B, and Ally is the pop-country, kind of church girl.

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'