Chris Hillman Quotes

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.

I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

Music was brought up in the church.

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 sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

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

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

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

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

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.

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.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

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.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.