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 can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.
Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."
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'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.
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.
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.
When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."
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.
I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.
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.
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.