Quotes by Randy Bachman - Page 1

When I was five I had violin lessons.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Five
Genocide
Lessons
Violin
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Copies
Song
Young
Cheap
Neil
Neil Young
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Country
Growing
Growing Up
Prairie
Love Music Country
Country Music
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We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Imperfect
Imperfection
Perfection
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Success
Successful
Want
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Fifty
Perseverance
Singles
Hits
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Accidents
Series
Life My Life Happy
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Active
Facts
People
Speak
Me Internet People
Indirectly
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Violin
By The Time
Liking
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Age
Born
Something Special
Special
Early Age
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Inevitable
Drives
Say
Wait
Over
Right
Stop
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Achievement
Alive
Lifetime
Award
Richards
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
Randy Bachman / Musician
One Thing
In The Past
Learnt
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Firsts
Strong
Thinking
Album
Nowhere
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Distinctive
Great Voice
Stories
Voice
Clearly
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Calling
People
Scary
Success Work People
Frighten
Sudden
Sudden People
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Connected
Growing Up
Prairie
Radio
World Me City
World City Me
Lifeline
Outside
Wider
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
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Golf
Musician
Paint
Golfer
Fish
Play Music
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Mediocre
Best Work Time
Great Songs
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Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Desperate
Firefighter
Song
Two
Condense
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I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Guitar Player
Rock Star
Noticed
Stayed
Super
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Branded
Copycats
Labels
Sound
Generally
Held
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
Randy Bachman / Musician
Branches
Color
Red
Brick
Browns
Cave
Ended
Mixture
Threw
Types
Uniform
Walls
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Bluegrass
Community
Dying
Rocks
Son
Acoustic
Folk
Local
Music Community
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Handshake
Performing
Tired
Lenny
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Changed
Dylan
Faces
Legacy
Lennon
Musical
Developed
John
Several
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
Randy Bachman / Musician
First Time
Time Music Me
Finding
Paying
Strengths
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Amount
Eight
Eighty
Every Night
Grateful
Reactions
Stunned
Unbelievable
Lyric
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To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Add
Example
Over It
Wall
Wiring
Circular
Tap
Drill
For Example
Hole
Outlet
Plaster
Pull
Seal
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Exploring
Saturday
Sunday
Religions
Pretend
Drifted
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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Bounce
Buying
People
Style
Change Music Your
Change Music People
Typecast
Risky
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Affiliation
January
Joining
No Doubt
Opera
Soap
Longest
Rocky
Soap Opera
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Empty
First Time
Last Night
Night
Parking
Parking Lot
Song
Tears
Two
Burst
Project
Listened
Pamphlet
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People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Lennon
Sophistication
Theory
Beatles Songs
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Chuck
Great Book
Hungry
Needed
Scotty
Berry
Hank
Lenny
Moore
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Ashamed
Drank
Drinking
Driven
Son
Foot
Leg
Looked
Twenty
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Chosen
Exclusive
Expertise
Personal Life
Touring
World Affairs
Life Politics Music
Affairs
Life Politics Religion
Production
Remain
Table
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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Acid
Band
Black Sabbath
Bluegrass
Clarinet
Jazz
Rhythm
Sabbath
Loves
Instrument
Popular
Plays
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Grateful
Hotel
Likes
London
Nashville
Radio
Taxi
Oh
Oh My God
Pull
Rent
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
Randy Bachman / Musician
Interfere
Rainbow
Sunset
Distant
Early Age
Motion
Realise
Tends
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