Canadian - Musician | September 27, 1943 -
My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Randy Bachman
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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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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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
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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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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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