Vince Gill Quotes
I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.
I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.
Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.
It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.
I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
