Randy Bachman
Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC OMis a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt with Chad Allan, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 September 1943
CityWinnipeg, Canada
CountryCanada
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.
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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.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.