18 Randy Bachman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Randy Bachman

Canadian Musician

Born: Sep 27, 1943

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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not. Randy Bachman

Life Happy My Life Accidents Has-Been Some Been Them Whole Series

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves. Randy Bachman

You World Guitar Will Black Country Band Jazz Everybody Incredible Clarinet See Black Sabbath Classical Sabbath Never Most Instrument Rock Bluegrass Blues Acid Rhythm Loves Popular Playing Plays

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset. Randy Bachman

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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. Randy Bachman

Before Took Guess Had Singles Hits Us Who

When I was five I had violin lessons. Randy Bachman

Had Five Lessons Violin

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. Randy Bachman

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. Randy Bachman

Young Neil Neil Young Songs Cheap Like Copies

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 and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears. Randy Bachman

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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 down. Randy Bachman

Strong First Down Think Make Go Bands Nowhere Album

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. Randy Bachman

Crazy Age Grateful People Every Lyric Unbelievable Know Stunned Reactions Felt Go Years Eight Eighty Amount Every Night Night

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it. Randy Bachman

Time Liking Really Started Playing By The Time Violin

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring. Randy Bachman

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. Randy Bachman

Life Relationship History My Life Journalist Doubt Changed Guess Our Once Bit Running No Doubt Joining Longest Opera Been Rocky Affiliation Forever Canadian May Soap Soap Opera January Who

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Randy Bachman

Great Learning Book Guitar First Believe Great Book Chuck Chuck Berry Everything Hungry Out Berry Moore Kindergarten Learn Learned Years Scotty Hank Lenny Ever Two Needed

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. Randy Bachman

Time Musicians Made Important Think Changed Other Musical Several John John Lennon Faces Had Developed He Exciting Over Like Truly Legacy Artist Dylan Lennon

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music. Randy Bachman

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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. Randy Bachman

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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. Randy Bachman

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