Musical Calling Quotes

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

I feel like I was born to make music.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

I didn't get into music; music got into me.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.