Army Quote by Kris Kristofferson

I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac…

— Elizabeth Crook

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

— Shawn Colvin

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

— Jon Secada

I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband.…

— Randy Houser

I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing…

— John Prine

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have…

— Eric Carmen

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel…

— Matthew Sweet

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It…

— Blake Shelton

I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

— Calum Scott

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5…

— Jon Landau

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was…

— Jon Secada