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
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.
It is harder to fail than it is to succeed because most people are going to watch you do is to react to what you've accomplished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.
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.
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.