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"You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir."
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"Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant."
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"When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith."
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"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."
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"You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it."
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"Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed."
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"Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean."
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"Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass."
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"Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy."
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"Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect."
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