Vince Gill Quotes

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

My muse has always been the piano.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.