Vince Gill Quotes
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.
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It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
