CASEY'S QUOTES -- Page 2
You've come to say something important.Be not weary in well doing, for in due season we will reap if we faint not. Say something! Leap out -- live in faith!
Live on the adventurous edge of a profound idea. It's always great to look around you, or look a person in the eye, and see the people who can stand a profound idea.
Declare the text with conviction -- that's what we're here for.
The sound is good, but there's no music in that alone.
Sing - it's in your heart!
We must get past the notes and down to the idea that passes between us. I believe in saying something humanly important - together - and to each other.
Doing something profound is having the best sort of time.
Don't fill your eye with wonder -- fill it with conviction.
The beauty of music is that it's in the moment. The moment you've sung it -- it's gone. Thus, music is the most like life.
The joy of music is the joy of commitment. We must leave our audience with a conviction. Their conviction is our statement of faith.
You have the spirit -- now, if you only had the pitch!
It must be a melody, not a set of notes.
Expression is a matter of the soul.
It's marvelous when you have an idea -- it's what the world is waiting for.
We sing of Thy mercy; we sing of Thy goodness; we sing day and night of Thy glorious truth (if you don't have fun here, you may as well check into a mortuary)
(During rehearsal, Mahlor, Kaddish by Bernstein)
One needs the cleanliness that comes with a cappella singing.
Schreck was the fifth cantor after Bach at Leipzig. Gustav Schreck taught F. Melius Christiansen at Leipzig, and he and his son Paul, who taught me.
A little less fact and a little more hope would be good.
We can change the world with music.
We get together in the hope we can find a new idea . . . some new values that will live with you. Don't be weary in well-doing.