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"Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself."
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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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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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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 pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door."
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"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."
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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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"The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days."
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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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"Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music."
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"It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap."
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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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