Vince Gill Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Record

• You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Person

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing, Time, Know

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hands, Exercise

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music – that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Enough

• Well I think in all the thirty years I’ve been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it’s really, it’s not about what I’ve achieved and if I’ve become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thirty, Think, Being

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Record, Just, Deal

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in About, People, Real

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Want, People, Songs

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, With, Songs

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Really, Takes

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Like

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun, Part, Like

• It is easy to react if everything is going great.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Easy

• I’ve always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Been

• I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Mean

• 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

  Topics in Country, Past

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Songs, Just

• I formally proposed. I’m a good Southern gentleman.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  Vince Gill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Being

Vince Gill (30)

Birth:	12th April, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner.

Related Authors

• Debbie Gibson
• Willa Ford
• Kim Wilde
• Luis Miguel
• Paul David Hewson
• Bruce Vilanch
• Otis Williams
• Leslie Edward Claypool
• Jakob Dylan
• Brad Delp

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st January

Births

• 1950 - Robert Luskin
• 1941 - Placido Domingo
• 1944 - Jong Yong Yun
• 1946 - Johnny Oates
• 1976 - Kirsty Gallacher

Deaths

• 1870 - Alexander Herzen
• 1924 - Vladimir Lenin
• 1932 - Lytton Strachey
• 1997 - Colonel Tom Parker
• 2008 - Evan G. Galbraith