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

- Randy Bachman
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

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

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 have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

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.

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.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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