Johnny Gimble Quotes

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.

What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

The first show we ever played was at my church.

I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

My personal favourites include J. J. Cale, R. D. Burman, Mehdi Hassan, and Ghulam Ali.

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.

My grandfather is a blues musician.

I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.