Vince Gill famous quotes

04-17-2025

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.
-- Vince Gill

#Music #Phones #Creative
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Artist #Musician #Cases
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Song #Writing #Mind
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
-- Vince Gill

#Normal #Fame
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
-- Vince Gill

#Stuff #Doe #Records
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
-- Vince Gill

#Kind #Break #Persons
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Awful #Companionship #Physical Attraction
I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
-- Vince Gill

#Struggle
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
-- Vince Gill

#Inspirational #Success #Character
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Mistake #Successful #Exercise
And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
-- Vince Gill

#Father #Divorce #Passing Away
You can't define the ache that's in George's voice. It's just something inherently him. It doesn't need definition. It doesn't need clarification. It doesn't need a lot of things. You just sit back and appreciate it. It's just greatness.
-- Vince Gill

#Greatness #Voice #Appreciate
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
-- Vince Gill

#Mom #Baseball #Dad
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.
-- Vince Gill

#People #Focus #Kind
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Country #Real #Records
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
-- Vince Gill

#Real #Thinking #People
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Song #Funny Things #People
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Song #Real #Interesting
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
-- Vince Gill

#Couple #Thinking #Two
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Country #Records #Great Success
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Fun #Memories #Real
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Song #Dad #Play
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
-- Vince Gill

#Normal #Fame
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band...
-- Vince Gill

#Music #Play #Together
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
-- Vince Gill

#Southern #Gentleman #Engagement
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
-- Vince Gill

#Country #Father #Divorce
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Care #Needs #Kind
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.
-- Vince Gill

#Country #Past #Records

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