Quotes by Randy Bachman

29 quotes by Randy Bachman

Randy Bachman - canadian Musician

Life period: 1943

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Quote by Randy Bachman about night, age, olderness, people

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I decided that I was going to do something totally different so that nobody could say that this (new project) wasn't as good as The Guess Who. They may not like it, but I didn't want to be compared.

Quote by Randy Bachman about good, good luck

I don't think that bands that make it on their first...

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a...

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.

Quote by Randy Bachman about numbers, time

I knew that a name didn't have to describe the music and...

I knew that a name didn't have to describe the music and yet the name becomes the music; the music goes with it.

Quote by Randy Bachman about music, name

I knew that I would always be a second-rate Guess Who because I didn't have all of the elements and machinery working on my own, which took (The Guess Who) about eight or nine years to get going.

I learned at an early age that I was given something...

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Quote by Randy Bachman about gifts, age, olderness, music

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst...

Quote by Randy Bachman about tears, night, time

I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn't even read...

I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn't even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered.

Quote by Randy Bachman about experience

It was originally meant to be a barn for animals, but...

It was originally meant to be a barn for animals, but ended up costing so much money that I decided to use it as a studio.

Quote by Randy Bachman about animals, use, money

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Quote by Randy Bachman about country, music, love

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It...

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It was really cool, the fact that he was doing country and folk.

Quote by Randy Bachman about country, time

No matter what happened with BTO, The Guess Who, or...

No matter what happened with BTO, The Guess Who, or anything that wasn't successful, it was always a learning experience.

Quote by Randy Bachman about experience

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now...

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

Quote by Randy Bachman about internet, people

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, ...

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

Quote by Randy Bachman about rocks, music, work

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Quote by Randy Bachman about music, rightness, time

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Quote by Randy Bachman about public

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