Randy Bachman Quotes

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and I always had that in mind.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

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

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.