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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.

Vince Gill

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Vince Gill
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 12
Country Singer
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.
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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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When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.
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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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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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