Chorus Quotes

• You can't look too old for the chorus.

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • Looks
  • Chorus

• There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Voice
  • Islamist

• I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Big
  • Sucker
  • Chorus

• Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Tell
  • Melody
  • Routines

• Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Universe
  • Dark
  • Vessel

• Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Connection

• Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Why
  • Pops

• The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

  

  Tones and I
  • God
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Broadway
  • Hoped
  • Chorus

• Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Song
  • Person
  • Story

• A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Psyche
  • Chorus
  • Take On

• I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Flower
  • Scream
  • Abandon

• When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Sing
  • Arms
  • Chorus

• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Song
  • Written
  • Verses

• I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Children
  • Community
  • Serious

• Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Drums
  • Manhattan
  • Chorus

• When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • School
  • Singing
  • Lot

• We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Experience
  • Events
  • Accidents