I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.
There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.
I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
I grew up singing in a church choir.
Of the music that we've done over the years, the things that are the most requested are the hymns. And folk music is also high on the list.
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.
We always try to do something for everyone. Some want only hymns; some want music of the masters; some like popular favorites.
