I started singing when I started talking.
God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.
I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.
I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
I consider everything I compose a gift.
God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.
I play music for people all over the world. It's a huge privilege.
Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.
I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.
By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
I've been blessed to be able to sing and perform.
Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.
Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.
I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
