Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gillis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth12 April 1957
CityNorman, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Vince Gill quotes about
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.
I'm the guy who loves being in the supporting cast.
Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.
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!"
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!
When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain.
It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
... 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...
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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.
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.
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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.