Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gillis an American country singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist and a duet partner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth12 April 1957
CityNorman, OK
CountryUnited States of America
They're doing fine whether I'm doing it or not. Maybe it doesn't have as many wisecracks.
The biggest disservice you can do to an instrument is to lock it away. Collectors will buy these instruments and put them in glass cases. They never get played and they lose their soul.
Musicians know that this area has been an amazing hotbed for singers and players.
It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.
I revere this place more than any other. It's a mecca of so much, of all our histories.
I don't think that anything will happen that will top that first impression of walking on that stage and looking around.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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.
I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"