Randy Bachman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.”

“When I was five I had violin lessons.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.”

“My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.”

“Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.”

“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.”