Religious Music Quotes

Religious Music Quote of the day

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.