Sydney Carter Quotes
May 6, 1915 – March 13, 2004
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So what do you believe in?Nothing fixed or final,all the while Itravel a miracle. I doubt,and yetI walk upon the water.
"So what do you believe in?" 
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More Sydney Carter Quotes
Teach the crippled how to leap,Throw their crutches on a heap,Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.Rock, love, carry it away,Lift the world up by your levity,Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Sydney Carter— "Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
They are songs which can be sung in a Christian context, but they all had to mean something to me because I was often on the edge of not believing. The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Sydney Carter— On the songs One More Step, Lord of the Dance, and When I needed a neighbour which a survey of schools in the UK found to be the first, fifth, and sixth most sung of songs under copyright used in school assemblies.
— The Times [London] (29 August 1996)
There are obvious problems with so many denominations in schools today, but I had collective worship at school and I do not think it is a bad thing.
Sydney Carter— The Times [London] (29 August 1996)
Coming and going by the dance, I seeThat what I am not is a part of me.Dancing is all that I can ever trust,The dance is all I am, the rest is dust.I will believe my bones and live by whatWill go on dancing when my bones are not.
Sydney Carter— Written as an epitaph based upon his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance".
