Vinnie Vincent Quotes

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

Great music is great music, period.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I never look at it as one entity. I've always felt like that.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

I have seen Tommy Emanuel play; my wife and I went to see him and he just melted my face off. How do you play guitar like that? There are so many people that play at a ridiculous level and I sit there watching them and I'm like, 'Wow, wish I could do that.'

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time.