“For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for joining the faith community in person. Surely, the church experience is about more than a message. We are always better off together than flying solo. Godcasting is a supplement, not a substitute for weekly worship.” PeoplePersonsReasonTogetherCommunityChurchPoorWorshipMessagesVariousFlyingSubstitutesSoloBetter OffJoiningSupplementsFaith Community Author:Craig Detweiler
“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?” IfsWayFactsTodayChristianFacesSoundChurchResultsAttitudeLibertyDisciplineMusicianInstrumentsLuxuryStringsPreacherSoloCarelessViolin Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.” YearsUsedChurchFiveSingingFive YearsExposedSoloFive Year Olds Book:I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story
“Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.” PeopleGivenChurchSeeingHugeListeningMessagesSingingAffectedSoloFellowshipChoir Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones
“But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.” IfsWritingShowsChurchMaterialsMusicianSpotsSongwritersSoloFolds Author:Ben Folds
“There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.” WellsDoeMotherStarsVoiceChurchRecordsMusicianMy FamilyOppositesSingersSoloSopranosBaritones Author:Grace Jones
“In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentRunningStuffSoundChurchWalksRoomsNew YorkTypePerformingDifferent WaysMuseumsSpeakersSoloSculptureFillingHornsWay Of ThinkingLoopsWhere You StandInstallation Author:Andrew Bird