Vivian Campbell Quotes

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

I don't think I'm getting better, quote unquote, as a singer or guitar player. But I'm more comfortable in this particular space. I get better at being a bad singer, so to speak.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I love all genres of music. I think it helps you become a better performer if you know the different types of music.

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.