When you ask a songwriter, ‘What’s your favorite song?’ he goes, ‘The next one. — Vince Gill

I’ve always been the high harmony singer. It’s never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made. — Vince Gill

I would love to hear someone write a song like ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ rather than ‘You’re hot. I’m hot. We’re in a truck.’ It’s just mind–numbing to me. — Vince Gill

I’ve always felt like every note of a song is of equal value. — Vince Gill

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don’t quite sing as good as you used to, you’re writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it’s just the journey. — Vince Gill

So I didn’t have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us. — Vince Gill

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don’t care about what vocal changes it went through. You can’t screw up a great song and a great singer. — Vince Gill

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know. — Vince Gill

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too. — Vince Gill

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am. — Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff. — Vince Gill

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there’s an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill. — Vince Gill

I don’t want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least. — Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I’m a good Southern gentleman. — Vince Gill

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things. — Vince Gill

It is easy to react if everything is going great. — Vince Gill

Whether I’m making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact. — Vince Gill

When I look back, I don’t remember the best of the best. I don’t remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain. — Vince Gill

It’s so much more interesting when you’re human. I hate making mistakes, but I’m not afraid of ’em. — Vince Gill

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character. — Vince Gill

I don’t chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you. — Vince Gill

There ain’t no future in the past. — Vince Gill

It is not that I don’t like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records. — Vince Gill

I’ve always been more drawn to being normal than being famous. — Vince Gill

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do. — Vince Gill

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it’s all over the map, when there’s a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things. — Vince Gill

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner. — Vince Gill

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It’s what I perceive as country music is about. — Vince Gill

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we’d play together. — Vince Gill

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn’t ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, ‘Hey, I’m Elvis! — Vince Gill

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy. — Vince Gill