Ronnie Milsap Quotes

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

- Ronnie Milsap

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

- Ronnie Milsap

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

- Ronnie Milsap

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.

- Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

- Ronnie Milsap

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

- Ronnie Milsap

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

- Ronnie Milsap

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

- Ronnie Milsap

I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

- Ronnie Milsap

When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.

- Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

- Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

- Ronnie Milsap

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

- Ronnie Milsap

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

- Ronnie Milsap

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

- Ronnie Milsap

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.

- Ronnie Milsap

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

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I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

- Ronnie Milsap

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

- Ronnie Milsap

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.

- Ronnie Milsap

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

- Ronnie Milsap

I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people.

- Ronnie Milsap

I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

- Ronnie Milsap

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

- Ronnie Milsap

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

- Ronnie Milsap

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

- Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

- Ronnie Milsap