Church Quote by Leon Russell

Music was brought up in the church.

— Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very…

— Grace Jones

We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and…

— Sonny Sandoval

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

— Richard Morris

You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic…

— Michael Emerson

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

— Tom Chapin

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

— Kelly Price

“A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite the various…

— Timothy Schaffert

The Christian church was born in song.

— Ralph P. Martin

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

— Mavis Staples

I grew up very Pentecostal. I think there's some sort of puritanical self-flagellation that I am very good at doing and probably will continue…

— Ayo Edebiri

“One reason for the popularity of music with a beat is that, once public schools began to drop music from their curriculum, people found…

— Brian A. Wren