If they say that only the good die young, well, evidently the greatest of all live to be 94 and sing two weeks before they pass on.

Vince Gill

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The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

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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.

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Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous. by Vince Gill

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

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When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes,... by Vince Gill

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."

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There ain't no future in the past. by Vince Gill

There ain't no future in the past.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

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A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

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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.

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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

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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.

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I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative i... by Vince Gill

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

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My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

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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.

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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

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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.

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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. by Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

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I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value. by Vince Gill

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

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