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But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

— Richard Morris

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

— Marilynne Robinson

People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.

— Tory Lanez

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

— Ellen G. White

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

— Dee Snider

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

— John Tesh

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

— Richard Rodgers

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

— Lesley Garrett

✗Opposing Perspectives

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

— John Phillips

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

— Charles Spurgeon