It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
My music lives because of real players.
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.