Musical Accomplishment Quotes

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of those seemingly ethereal beings who floated about in the highest echelons of musical accomplishment, effortlessly producing virtuoso performances in several different languages.

Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

I got recognised for my work in 'Guru' as 'Tere Bina' became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have sung major lyrical portions of the song 'Maiyya' as well.

I can't take credit for the success of my songs.

It was the beginning of our second career. We certainly had a full career - 15 years at it - before it came out, but 'Eliminator' had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

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.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Once we went into the basement and learned a song, we felt successful. Then we learned two songs, and then we got a gig, and on and on - and that's the way musicians think. I don't know about other people - I mean, I don't know about all musicians either - but some are more driven than others.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.