36 Quotes by Richard Morris

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    I was pretty healthy when I was a kid. When I started gaining weight after college, I was as surprised as everyone else.

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    You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

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    Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

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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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    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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    To understand the threat to music education posed by the seemingly minor change of mind, one needs to go back in time to the enactment of the Education Reform Act in 1988.

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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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