Chorus Quotes - Page 6

• ...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

  Bruno Schulz

  Fire, Two, Piano

  Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

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• A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

  Deborah Smith

  Children, Husband, Smart

  Deborah Smith (2009). “On Bear Mountain”, p.229, BelleBooks

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• We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

  Barack Obama

  Reality, Offering, Voice

  Barack Obama’s New Hampshire Primary Speech, www.nytimes.com. January 08, 2008.

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• I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.

  Guy Maddin

  Girl, Fun, Artist

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Eye, Two

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• Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Stories, Glances

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.165, Penguin

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• There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

  Oliver Sacks

  Song, Children, Musical

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• There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.

  John Flanagan

  Winning, Two, Waiting

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• Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Students, Humans, Subjects

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Long, Gone

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.34, Three Rivers Press

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• (Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

  Emma Forrest

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

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• I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Sorry, Loss, Awful

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

  Milt Jackson

  Music, Four, Jazz

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Laughter, Symphony, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1822). “The Guardian”, p.116

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• When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Might, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

  Howard Shore

  Epic, Symphony, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.

  John Krasinski

  School, Play, Community

  "John Krasinski Talks 'Promised Land,' Leaving 'The Office' Behind & Life as an Ivy League Playwright". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. January 6, 2013.

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• I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses.

  N. T. Wright

  Hymns, Important, Church

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...

  Lily Allen

  Girl, Song, Real

  "Lily Allen: 'I'm called mouthy but I'm just talking'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

  Terence McKenna

  Greek, Events, Human Experience

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• Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus

  J. P. McEvoy

  Girl, Boys, Different

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• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  Chris Matthews

  Spiritual, Voice, Leader

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

  Neil Diamond

  Singing, Connections, Choral Music

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