Organ Music Quotes

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.

I used to think God only liked organ music.

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

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.

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

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

I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

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

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

I think the Yamaha has a giant quality. When you combine the Yamaha with other organs, you get this crazy rectangular sound. It's kind of flat and thick.