Church Background Quotes

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.

I grew up in the church.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

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

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

I grew up in church.

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

I was born in church. I was raised in church.

Ricky Washington is from a Baptist church in Miami, Florida, and he can pretty much sing anything. We just started working it up at soundcheck, and holy smokes, it's just great! The audience gets to singing. So there's that stuff to do - find some old obscure R&B stuff - because we can do it justice.

When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.