Always Quote by Bart Millard

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

— Jeongyeon

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to…

— Charles Spurgeon

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir for years.…

— Katherine Reay

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

— Fantasia Barrino

I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I…

— Greg Graffin

I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California,…

— Dwight Yoakam

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the…

— Missi Pyle

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew…

— Susan Boyle

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

— Paul Lynde

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

— Big Freedia

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

— Rita Coolidge