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
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
That's the one thing that is really timeless is the songs. The artistry, the popularity of the artistry, that's going to come and go.
I still have to play the solos and do the things that I do on my records, I still put in the work. I think that it's more lonely, and it's hard.
My Dad says I've made a name for myself and now I can pull back and appreciate what I do instead of striving to get to my next gig.
That's the beauty of this mandolin. It's the Holy Grail. Most musicians think it's in the New Testament. And it ought to be.
It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.
The biggest disservice you can do to an instrument is to lock it away. Collectors will buy these instruments and put them in glass cases. They never get played and they lose their soul.
It will set my record back a ways, but you better believe I'm going.
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.
This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
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.
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.