Chorus Quotes - Page 3

• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Kids, Work Out

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider

  Strong, Class, Heaven

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• That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

  Jorge Garcia

  Fun, Eye, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

  Ryan Tedder

  Thinking, Guitar, Hook

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• So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Laughter, Eye

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• I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

  Kate Brown

  Song, Real, Long

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.

  Dave Brubeck

  Prayer, Night, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.

  Martin Popoff

  Song, Men, Long

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is, but you have to have a sensibility of how something would flow either way.

  Shura

  Song, Different, Verses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a row became known as the bald-headed row. It might be assumed from this on statistical evidence that the continued close observation of chorus girls in tights caused loss of hair from the top of the head.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Girl, Cancer, Loss

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• The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.

  Max von Essen

  Long, Singing, Done

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  Hector Tobar

  Appreciation, Reality, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.

  Vera Nazarian

  Epic, Greek, Firsts

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• You can't look too old for the chorus.

  Donna McKechnie

  Looks

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, Bridges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Water, Soul, Goes On

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• My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Hook

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets themoney because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Stars, Golf, Light

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• Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

  Aristophanes

  Wind, Way, Gallant

  "Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 410 BCE.

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• I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

  James Bay

  Kids, Black, Littles

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• Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Government, World

  "The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

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