Randy Travis Quotes

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

I got into singing when I was 6.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.