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“I've just always loved music. They tell me that I sang even when I was an infant.”
“You don't know when you are young how important some decisions are.”
“My idol was Jackie Wilson, and I toured with James Brown.”
“There is a large section of people who think a Christian singer has to sing Christian songs all the time.”
“We were thinking of an excuse to go into the studio - me and Allan Schwartzberg and Bob Mann, my two guys I've recorded with so much in New York City. We said, 'Man, let's make an album of Brazilian music just for ourselves, if nothing else.' So we made it.”
“That Portuguese language is so beautiful when it is sung and even spoken.”
“I have great fans, a great wife and three grandkids!”
“The best way to give my testimony is to sing songs in praise of Jesus Christ.”
“I developed a style with my own earmarks.”
“I've only tried to record things that I really believe in and that I really feel.”
“The only songs I would learn were songs that moved me emotionally.”
“I was attracted to music when I was very young. I got in my first band when I was 15, so that's all I've ever done.”
“If a song really moves me, if I think it's a good song, I can do it.”
“The greatest compliment a person could pay my music is to listen and sing along with it and think that he can sing just as good as me.”
“Elvis never had any compunctions about doing gospel music. At the height of his initial breakthrough he was putting out gospel records.”
“I had had eight hits on the Top 20 chart before 'Raindrops,' but they were soon forgotten and so was I. Before that song, I was successful at selling records, but I was never a somebody.”
“I try to be positive.”
“I'm not a traditional country artist, but I do think I'm in the tradition of people like Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins.”
“My Dad was just a working man. He was a good man and he loved music.”
“Most of us in this business, if not all, have a burning desire to perform and to sing and to do it somewhere.”