Vivian Campbell

You’ve got to be willing to put stuff on the line, otherwise it doesn’t have much meaning.

I think I was supposed to play Jazz.

I still do what I love, and I don’t really think about it. I try to make a beautiful show, so people go home happy. That’s my biggest aspiration: to make people happy.

A great teacher stimulates his student’s creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

Forget about upholding the tradition and just play who you really are.

I write about moments, and I don’t make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody’s come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

A musician starting out today should get a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument.

Practicing is like getting your vocabulary together to use on the gig.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.

I have no one style.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Dog spelled backward is God. That’s pretty heavy.

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

We really never know what we’re gonna play when we get on stage.