Shakira

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

Musician

Irina Shayk

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

Russian Model

Gavin Creel

I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention.

American Actor

Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

American Musician

Olivia Wilde

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

American Actress

Juan Felipe Herrera

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

American Poet

Harry Hadden-Paton

I was a choir boy at school, then when the choir became less cool, I became a kind of rock star in my own world.

British Actor

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

Italian Writer

Gladys Knight

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

Austin Aries

American Wrestler

A choir involves collaboration, often performing in concerts or services.

Group Singing

Choirs vary by size and style, from gospel to barbershop.

Musical Variety

Choirs usually have sections like soprano, alto, tenor, bass.

Voice Parts

The choir area is often near the altar, with seating for singers.

Church Architecture

The design of a church's choir area can affect the sound quality.

Acoustics Matter

The choir section is primarily used during worship and church services.

Religious Services

In an orchestra, a choir refers to a group of the same type of instrument.

Orchestral Sections

A musical choir blends instruments to create a unified sound.

Harmonious Sound

Composers distribute moments to let each choir shine in the piece.

Musical Balance

In literature, choirs of angels are organized into orders or ranks.

Heavenly Hierarchy

Choir of angels often symbolizes purity, religiousness, and the divine.

Symbolic Imagery

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 the problem in the first place leads me to three wee liberals can be our own worst enemy sometimes we think we own the high moral ground and that tends to cause us to disrespect and demonize people who are not part of the choir it also leads to a somewhat distorted worldview we're being right is

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 realized that I was really preaching to the choir these products of my publicity we're really getting to people who were already aware of the importance and the beauty of canopy organisms so I began to ask how I can get outside that choir how can I bring my messages to people who

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 Frankly, what we're seeing now in this environment is a massive time, when the entire world is changing as we move from a time when audience numbers are plummeting. But the number of arts participants, people who write poetry, who sing songs, who perform in church choirs,

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 enthusiasm and strength. In its essence, the orchestra and the choir are much more than artistic structures. They are examples and schools of social life, because to sing and to play together

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 But writing can. So can singing in a choir or a bluegrass band. So can painting community murals or birding or fostering old dogs that no one else will. Number families.

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