Randy Bachman quote: "I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar."

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus ...
RANDY BACHMAN

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate t...
RANDY BACHMAN

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
RANDY BACHMAN

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba...
RANDY BACHMAN

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
RANDY BACHMAN

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you ca...
RANDY BACHMAN

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden p...
RANDY BACHMAN

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songw...
RANDY BACHMAN

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each ot...
RANDY BACHMAN

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the ...
RANDY BACHMAN

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

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car a...
RANDY BACHMAN

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, a...
RANDY BACHMAN

When I was five I had violin lessons.
RANDY BACHMAN

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just...
RANDY BACHMAN

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award f...
RANDY BACHMAN

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider w...
RANDY BACHMAN

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,...
RANDY BACHMAN

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

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw...
RANDY BACHMAN

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has...
RANDY BACHMAN

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisher...
RANDY BACHMAN

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
RANDY BACHMAN

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' a...
RANDY BACHMAN

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional...
RANDY BACHMAN

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. ...
RANDY BACHMAN

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk a...
RANDY BACHMAN

I'm so glad I found Maren to work with. She has the most perfect voice. She has absolutely perfect i...
RANDY BACHMAN

You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that yo...
RICHARD BACHMAN

He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some lar...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like to...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his ...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to r...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?
RICHARD BACHMAN

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alig...
JOHN BACHMAN

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes t...
JOHN BACHMAN

He is pushed out the door, he shoots, flees and disposes of the gun.
ADRIENNE BACHMAN

Ladies and gentlemen, that November 9th, Geraldine Lowe was just trying to keep her family together,...
ADRIENNE BACHMAN

It gets real hectic. If people bring them in early, there's time to do it and do it thoroughly and c...
DONALD BACHMAN

The air molecules pass right through the rubber molecules, even without a puncture. People never kee...
DONALD BACHMAN

Asbestos is just so ubiquitous; it's everywhere. If you look at a lot of the substances that are cau...
JEFF BACHMAN

If Boeing and Microsoft and others who are seen as deeply engaged and committed to the relationship ...
DAVID BACHMAN

When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Flori...
RICHARD BACHMAN

You can't stop the wear. But, you can slow it way down.
DONALD BACHMAN

If they don't keep them maintained, they break down. Just like a car. If you don't keep it up, all o...
DONALD BACHMAN

We'll have to work with the railroad and local businesses for this to happen.
DON BACHMAN

You can just sit here and watch these guys deal out of their house. It's unbelievable.
DON BACHMAN

I just called a car in today, gave them the license number, a description, everything. You just see ...
DON BACHMAN

The political, business and what I might call the establishment community here is very atypical of t...
DAVID BACHMAN

His relative status in the leadership is strengthened when he focuses on foreign policy, where he is...
DAVID BACHMAN

This Washington is an alternative vision of what the US-China relationship can be. Here we have a st...
DAVID BACHMAN

There's pride in the International District about China's rise, and lots of people will be quite hap...
DAVID BACHMAN

Nobody's called me specifically and said you need to have your client here in the morning.
GLEN BACHMAN

I've heard there were two sealed indictments returned.
GLEN BACHMAN

I've heard there were two sealed indictments returned. Nobody's called me specifically and said you ...
GLEN BACHMAN

I think it was a safety concern for him and the university.
GLEN BACHMAN

He hasn't been charged with anything at this point. I'm just not going to comment at this point.
GLEN BACHMAN

They thought it was in the best interests of all concerned if he be put on suspension.
GLEN BACHMAN

Wahnsinn ist, wenn man nicht mehr die Nähte sehen kann, mit denen die Welt zusammengenäht ist.
RICHARD BACHMAN

Wenn die Intelligenten einen schlechten Charakter haben, so zeigt sich das, und wenn sie keinen schl...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Wenn man sich für jemanden verantwortlich fühlt, kann es sein, daß man ihn schließlich haßt.
RICHARD BACHMAN

So sind die Dinge manchmal. Wenn alles am schlimmsten ist, dann wirft der Verstand alles in einen Pa...
RICHARD BACHMAN

The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head...
RICHARD BACHMAN

You’re on, Ted,” I told him. “Your big chance, boy. Don’t blow it. Folks, this kid is going ...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Sanity:
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosa...
RICHARD BACHMAN

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.
RICHARD BACHMAN

Lunacy is when you can’t see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore.
RICHARD BACHMAN

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.
RICHARD BACHMAN

Which one hadn't he walked down? Was it Barkovitch? Collie Parker? Percy What'shisname? Who was it? ...
RICHARD BACHMAN

These violations may include monetary civil penalties.
JEFF BACHMAN

It's a Bible study of the basics for individuals who are at their own level. Even though they are me...
MARIETTA BACHMAN

I think they've learned a lot about difference and tolerance. In school 'retard' is a common, negati...
MARIETTA BACHMAN

Our house had an extra bedroom or two after we had to rebuild because we were hit by a tornado in 19...
MARIETTA BACHMAN

We were kind of going through a transition. I wanted to be home for my daughters more. Even though I...
MARIETTA BACHMAN

We just saw a need there because these individuals can understand a lot. They just need people with ...
MARIETTA BACHMAN

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.
RICHARD BACHMAN

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what ...
RANDY WEST

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friends...
RANDY WEST

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform exper...
RANDY WEST

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
RANDY WEST

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
RANDY WEST

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You ...
RANDY WEST

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
RANDY WEST

I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially tr...
RANDY WEST

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
RANDY WEST

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than '...
RANDY WEST

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probab...
RANDY WEST

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial t...
RANDY WEST

Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can ...
RANDY WEST

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
RANDY WEST

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to...
RANDY WEST

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my...
RANDY WEST

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's...
RANDY WEST

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game...
RANDY WEST

But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many...
RANDY WEST

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
RANDY WEST

I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, film...
RANDY WAYNE

There are so many movies people make just to make money.
RANDY WAYNE

I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... ...
RANDY WAYNE

John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip ...
RANDY WAYNE

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as ...
RANDY WAYNE

I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
RANDY WAYNE

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card c...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I wa...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a mi...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
RANDY SCHEKMAN

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
RANDY SCHEKMAN

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how li...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is r...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards oft...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has prop...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the c...
RANDY SCHEKMAN

I've been loving music all my life.
RANDY SAVAGE

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
RANDY SAVAGE

There are no tough guys in wrestling.
RANDY SAVAGE

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy cha...
RANDY SAVAGE

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass th...
RANDY SAVAGE

Every sport has its own cast of characters.
RANDY SAVAGE

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present t...
RANDY QUAID

I would never walk off any show.
RANDY QUAID

I've been racketeered on.
RANDY QUAID

I love Canada.
RANDY QUAID

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
RANDY QUAID

Acting's more of a business for me now.
RANDY QUAID

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That i...
RANDY QUAID

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
RANDY QUAID

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
RANDY QUAID

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
RANDY QUAID

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager...
RANDY QUAID

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
RANDY QUAID

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space...
RANDY QUAID

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
RANDY QUAID

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
RANDY QUAID

When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all...
RANDY QUAID

I love my brother. I miss my brother.
RANDY QUAID

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
RANDY PAUSCH

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to kee...
RANDY PAUSCH

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
RANDY PAUSCH

The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably b...
RANDY PAUSCH

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and...
RANDY PAUSCH

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
RANDY PAUSCH

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
RANDY PAUSCH

Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
RANDY PAUSCH

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch ...
RANDY PAUSCH

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under ...
RANDY PAUSCH

Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them...
RANDY PAUSCH

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three ...
RANDY PAUSCH

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the...
RANDY PAUSCH

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's...
RANDY PAUSCH

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it&#...
RANDY PAUSCH

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in payb...
RANDY PAUSCH

I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, an...
RANDY PAUSCH

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
RANDY PAUSCH

I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they ...
RANDY OWEN

Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5...
RANDY OWEN

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN

God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'...
RANDY OWEN

I can't not be who I am.
RANDY OWEN

The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN

I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do...
RANDY OWEN

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
RANDY OWEN

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
RANDY OWEN

I like Public Enemy a great deal.
RANDY NEWMAN

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn'...
RANDY NEWMAN

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to pla...
RANDY NEWMAN

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand wha...
RANDY NEWMAN

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yours...
RANDY NEWMAN

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
RANDY NEWMAN

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song...
RANDY NEWMAN

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself tal...
RANDY NEWMAN

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ...
RANDY NEWMAN

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
RANDY NEWMAN

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
RANDY NEWMAN

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
RANDY NEWMAN

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
RANDY NEWMAN

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you...
RANDY NEWMAN

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in...
RANDY NEWMAN

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l...
RANDY NEWMAN

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou...
RANDY NEWMAN

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
RANDY NEWMAN

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and o...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woma...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our b...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the fed...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

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