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I think all music is a gift from God.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.