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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

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Vince Gill
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 12
Country Singer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Multi-Instrumentalist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Voice Actor
Norman
Oklahoma
Vincent Grant Gill
Vincent Gill
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Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play.
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Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.
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It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.
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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.
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I'm the guy who loves being in the supporting cast.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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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.
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There ain't no future in the past.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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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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Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
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We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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