Randy Bachman quotes

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly. (Randy Bachman)
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. View quote
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not. View quote
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! View quote
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within. View quote
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work. View quote
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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. View quote
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. View quote
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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music. View quote
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. View quote
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want. (Randy Bachman)
When I was five I had violin lessons. View quote
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Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like. View quote
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. View quote
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. View quote
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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. View quote
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole. View quote
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Randy Bachman

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Photo: Randy_Bachman_in_2009.jpg: B Stahls derivative work: Tabercil (talk), CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Canadian Musician
Born: September 27, 1943
Quotes count: 20