Randy Bachman

(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

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(5 votes)   My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

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(4 votes)   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.

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

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(4 votes)   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 into tears.

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(4 votes)   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.

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