Chorus Quotes
194 quotes by 180 authors
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I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of…
— James Cagney
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There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
— Po Bronson
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets,…
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
— Deborah Wiles
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Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your…
— Cheon Eunbi
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and…
— Ikue Mori
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I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the…
— Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
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I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of…
— Larry Carlton
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and…
— Anodea Judith
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We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were…
— George Harrison
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I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is…
— Janis Ian
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.…
— Robbie Robertson
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't…
— Lenny Kravitz
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I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like…
— John Prine
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names…
— Robbie Robertson
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Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned…
— Tom Paxton
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It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead…
— Scott Avett
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My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two…
— Don Helms
Who Wrote These Chorus Quotes
180 authors contributed a total of 194 Chorus Quotes, led by these top contributors: