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"I'm not sure that the sad, the heartbreaking, the melancholy in music is extracurricular.  I'm not really speaking of "classics", but of any music, church music in particular in this context.  Think of "When I…"

"Hi Greg.  I agree.  Alot of great music came from the seat of our emotions.  But what I have hinted is why bring that in church when we can always have access outside of it?  I am not saying to do away with such music.  I…"

"Well, that and anything that would possibly remind us or attract us in some sense to a time of our past.  Don't get me wrong, memories are valid, but the risk of all of a sudden longing to relive them shouldn't conflict with…"

"I don't either.  All I remember is I was a GI overseas when I heard it on the radio.  I thought they were singing "Hallelujah" (I'm an organist, I never get the words right), so I thought they were finally playing…"

"Ah - so we have to be careful not to take George Harrison's tune and "christianize" it because his estate might sue us for not promoting Hare Krishna. (The name of the tune escapes me. And I'm not really interested in remembering…"

"Works are not copyrighted just to make money!  That (c) also defends the integrity of the music, which represents the integrity of the author/composer.  It would be irritating to me if someone took the song I wrote and simply called it…"

"I'm not sure that applies if you've got the words up on the screen or in your bulletin. I'm just sayin, like you're last statement implies, we should be even more careful with the secular authorities."

"There is a religious service exemption for performance of copyrighted material, but any other venue, a youth event, for instance, we're not exempt, and in order to perform copyrighted music, we need the applicable licensing kept up to date…"