Randy Bachman Quotes

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• My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
• When I was five I had violin lessons.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
• 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…
• 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…
• You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and…
• With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
• The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
• 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…
• 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…
• We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.
• 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…
• 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…
• My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
• 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…

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