Sonny Sandoval Quotes

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.

I tried to give some warnings early on to a lot of my Christian followers that mixtape really wasn't targeted at the church so they would be able to understand. I wanted to wrestle with some things that I know people outside of the church wrestle through. When It comes to the church I just want to edify.

When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse.

I listen to Christian music.

U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of that.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.