Randy Bachman Quotes

I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in that song, they really struck my soul, totally.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

I've cried over string arrangements.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears.

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

When 'Friday Night Lights' finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.