Chorus Quotes

• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

  William Blake

  Sweet, Singing, Merry

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.53, Routledge

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• A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Writing Songs, Songwriting

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• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  Ikue Mori

  Girl, New York, Sunset

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• I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

  James Cagney

  Girl, Mother, Fun

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  Edgard Varese

  Important, Use, Want

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• I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Achievement, Add, May

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• I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

  Tommy Shaw

  Upbeat, Bigs, Sucker

  Interview with A-j Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Theodore White

  Song, Night, Soldier

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• I hate the way chorus boxes sound

  Pat Metheny

  Hate, Sound, Way

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• Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

  Jeremy Irons

  Nice, Lines, Height

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

  Abba Eban

  Believe, People, Belief

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• When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

  Laura Story

  Singing, Anthem, Praise

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• I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Worry

  "Mellencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Laughter, Taken

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Change, Song, Thinking

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• Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.59

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• There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

  Po Bronson

  Positive, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

  Epictetus

  Singers, Praise, Harmony

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• The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Eye, Forever

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.82, North Atlantic Books

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• The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

  James Martineau

  Sacrifice, Self, Voice

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

  Walter Savage Landor

  Play, Long, Theatre

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.665

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