Hymns Quotes - Page 7

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

  Kaskade

  Uplifting, Spiritual, People

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• In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Long, Church

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Poet And Memoirist Maya Angelou". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

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• The song
  Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus,
  And nightly, new discoveries are made
  Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love,
  Which give the understanding larger room,
  And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.

  Robert Pollok

  Song, Discovery, Giving

  Robert Pollok (1868). “The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author”, p.155

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• And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sky, Rivers, Sound

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns.

  George Harrison

  Prayer, Vibrations, Energy

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

  Alan Green

  Raises Questions, Church, World

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  Scotty McCreery

  Song, Religious, Strong

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• You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

  Louis Armstrong

  Song, Heart, Play

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Children, Thinking, Smell

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

  Jeff Britting

  Men, Play, Ego

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Party

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Singing, Needs

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.

  Baron Vaughn

  Song, Eye, Heart

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Religious, Practice, Icons

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

  Philip Appleman

  Blood, Hands, Knees

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• ... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

  Mary McCarthy

  Easter, Prayer, Latin

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• Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Tired, Voice

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called "Travelers Lantern" that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Years, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Years, Etc, Conscious

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.npr.org

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• They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Grandmother, Voice, Grandpa

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ksjd.org. December 6, 2016.

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• When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Church Music, Musician, Dixie

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

  Emma Donoghue

  Motherhood, Thinking, Parent

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Moon, Toes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Faith, Angel, Glory

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.134

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