48 Quotes by Randy Bachman

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

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.

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.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

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

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

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.