Church Musician Quotes

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted ... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. ~ Edvard Grieg

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, 'Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.' Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet, and music are incredibly significant in shaping world views and lifestyles of today's America. And Christians are expressing a growing awareness and response to these avenues of influence. Where is God calling you to serve him – media, arts and entertainment, politics, education, church, business, science? ~ David Kinnaman

It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church ... you should read the Scriptures. ~ Rich Mullins

There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo. ~ Grace Jones

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ~ Ben Folds

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world. ~ Fanny Crosby

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician. ~ Tablo

Eventually everyone vacates church where God is not obviously present and working. Getting people back to church is pointless unless God comes back first - that's what Vertical Church is all about! Ritual church, tradition church, felt-need church, emotional-hype church, rules church, Bible-boredom church, relevant church, and many other iterations are all horizontal substitutes for God come down, we all get rocked and radically altered, Vertical Church. ~ James MacDonald

The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician. ~ Kevin Eubanks

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. ~ Jeanine Tesori

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument. ~ Lester Bowie

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician. ~ Daron Malakian

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician. ~ Kip Winger

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~ Sufjan Stevens

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician ... ~ Sheena Iyengar

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones. ~ Alex Clare

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music. ~ John McLaughlin

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family. ~ Sam Rivers

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician. ~ Sun Ra

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician. ~ Michelle Chamuel

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician. ~ Charlie Worsham

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls ~ Rumi

Denise Donatelli is a musician's singer! ~ Phil Woods

I was a musician first before anything. ~ Jencarlos Canela

I want to be treated like a musician. ~ Halsey

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. ~ Bobby McFerrin

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. ~ Jon Stewart

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world."
"Michael Jackson lived here?"
"No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley. ~ Rick Riordan

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. ~ Dave Brubeck

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. ~ Sheena Iyengar

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind. ~ Karrine Steffans

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. ~ Dave Grohl

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. ~ Jill Sobule

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician. ~ Brian Cox

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. ~ Freddie Mercury

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician. ~ Tim Hecker

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician. ~ Tom DeLonge

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician. ~ Minnie Driver

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. ~ Evelyn Glennie

I did everything I could to not be a musician. ~ Dhani Harrison

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar. ~ George Harrison

If I wasn't a musician ... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling. ~ Ben Howard

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one. ~ Victor Wooten

Practice like good musician; draw every day. ~ Sergei Bongart

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space. ~ Nikhil Banerjee

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. ~ Doc Childre

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. ~ Alicia Keys

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing. ~ Tift Merritt

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician. ~ John Tesh

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was. ~ Jim Sullivan

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician. ~ Kenneth Edmonds

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. ~ Horace

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician. ~ Trent Reznor

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops. ~ Kemp Muhl

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. ~ Meshell Ndegeocello

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught ~ Buddy Rich

I'm constantly evolving as a musician. ~ Tommy Lee

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician. ~ Willie Dixon

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it. ~ Jerry Harrison

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ~ Charlie Trotter

Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. ~ Kenneth S. Kantzer

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician. ~ Ruben Studdard

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living. ~ Kirke Mechem

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. ~ Nat King Cole

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing. ~ Patti Smith

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. ~ Lou Reed

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything. ~ Cass McCombs

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that. ~ David Sanborn

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed. ~ Lotic

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. ~ Francis Chan

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. ~ Flannery O'Connor

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. ~ Chad Smith

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer! ~ Russell Brand

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world. ~ Stephen Marley

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church. ~ LeCrae

In our discussion of the need for balanced ministry fronts in chapter 23, we looked at the five models of church proposed by Avery Dulles: "the church as institution" (which we might call doctrine driven); "the church as mystical communion" (worship driven); "the church as sacrament" (community driven); "the church as herald" (evangelism driven); and "the church as servant" (justice driven). ~ Timothy Keller

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach ... ~ Aaron Copland

I'm a painter first, and a musician second. ~ Joni Mitchell

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. ~ Keith Richards

I'd love to play a musician in a film. ~ Marianne Faithfull

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. ~ George Crabbe

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church. ~ Bill Hybels

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad. ~ Elle King

According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now. ~ Wayne Mack

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it. ~ Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. ~ Chester Bennington

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know? ~ Dave Grohl

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. ~ Moby

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ~ Ed O'Brien

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. ~ Robbie Robertson

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician. ~ Jerry Cantrell

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music. ~ Evelyn Glennie

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world. ~ Joe Cocker

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point. ~ Laurence Fox