Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Platten

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

Anne Dudley

I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of choirs and the English pastoral music I used to hear when growing up. I was also inspired by the textures and rhythmic vitality of the so-called minimalists, Philip Glass and John Adams, and I'm always intrigued by the sound of the recording studio.

Charles King

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Jake Kasdan

In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.

Michael Spiller

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Jackie Cooper

I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television.

David Altshuler

Being directed down that pathway is very helpful.

Van Baker

I fully expect to see more directed at the living room cabinet.

CJ Adams

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

Roy Cooper

the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process.

Thomas Carlyle

The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.

Jimmy Carter

It was not a gospel piece at first. We helped transcribe it to a gospel play.

Mary J. Blige

I listen to gospel music.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

Marvin Meyer

We will be talking about this Gospel for generations to come.

Ronnie Milsap

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.

John Styll

People will always need hope, inspiration and ultimately salvation, and gospel music provides a path to all those things.

Alexis Herman

We have to preach the savings gospel message, ... It's an important message for all Americans today.

Brad Paisley

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Bruce Johnston

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

Christopher Lee

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.