Christianity Quote by Dwight Yoakam

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 -…

— Dwight Yoakam

I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music…

— Ryan Bingham

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what…

— Greg Lake

As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should…

— W. S. Merwin

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

— John Betjeman

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of…

— Billy Joel

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out…

— David Longstreth

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard…

— Bobby Womack

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

— Peter Kay

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

— Yannis Philippakis

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

— Walter Raleigh