Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

My life is to sing.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

I love touring, I really do.

The stage is my first love.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that's what's going to be around forever in my life. Because with 'Austin & Ally,' our season is going to end, and then that will be it. But R5 will always be there.