Bible Quote by Maya Angelou

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…

— Bruce R. McConkie

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As…

— William Shenstone

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the…

— Carlos Santana

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

— Matt Redman

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their…

— Martin Luther

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

— Yannis Philippakis

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

— Tommy Douglas

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those…

— Dwight Yoakam

I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which…

— N. T. Wright

“There is a very important connection between the Church's worldview and the Church's hymns. If your heart and mouth are filled with songs of…

— David Chilton

“Sean: When you started to delve into the New Testament, how influential was that on the way you wrote songs? I'm thinking particularly of…

— Nick Cave

“Medieval scholars held on to a classical Greek theory, according to which the movements of the stars across the sky create heavenly music that…

— Yuval Noah Harari