"You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art"
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"Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith."
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"I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting."
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"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
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"Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head."
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"A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound."
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"Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument."
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"Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence."
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
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"J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation."
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"I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical."
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"The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form."
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"The devil doesn't stay where there is music."
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"The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point."
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"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing."
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"I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series."
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"Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do."
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"It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me."
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"I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was."
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"In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand."
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