Vince Gill American Musician Quotations

Your talent level, as the years go by, you know, you're going to lose a little bit of what you used to be able to do, like an athlete.

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.

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.

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.

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 is easy to react if everything is going great.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

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.

And just, once again, the connection there that was kind of rare was - it was - it felt - everything felt familiar, you know, when I met Amy.

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.

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.