Vince Gill Quotes

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

I'm not good at watching myself.