Richard Morris Quotes

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.

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

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

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

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'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.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

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

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

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.

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.

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

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.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

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.

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.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

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

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.