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Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame
I have the best time playing music. And my folks saw that. And so they never said, "When are you going to go get a real job?" because I had really put a lot of effort into it long before it was time to move on and go to college and think about something else. I think that's another reason maybe a lot of young musicians fall by the wayside. They're not willing to do what I did, which is go out there and play on street corners once in a while to make enough money to pay your rent and be willing to starve. You know, they only want that safety net. They want that cushion. And I never needed it. I don't feel any different today at 52 than I did at 18. And what's in the bank account has never changed one ounce of what I loved doing. I'd still be doing it at 52, if I was still playing those same beer joints.
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Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame
It was a learning experience. I got to spend a lot of years really putting my feet in a lot of different places. I sang on so many records in that stretch of time in Nashville in the 80's. I don't know how many artists' records I've worked on over the years. I know it's -- well, over 400 or 500. Something like that. And not that that's bragging, but it's how I made a living. You know, people thought enough of what I did as a supporting cast member to be a part of those records. And in all honesty, that's what I had really aspired to be, more than an artist even. And I said, "I don't want to be one of those guys that their name is down there playing on the records." Even saying it today, I would have been fine had that been my career, you know, because I didn't have to be at the center of it to have it matter. I just had to be a part of it, and it mattered. That's what I loved, was the democracy of making music in that it takes all of those elements that most people aren't even aware of. And that's fine. Some people just listen to music and they focus on the guy up there singing. But I'm listening to the bass player, and listening to the drummer, and listening to what the guitar player plays. I love every note of it. And so that's to me what's beautiful about collaborating with people is that all the notes are equal, and it takes all those notes to make something great.
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Rudolph Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
Rudolph Giuliani: My parents were very, very supportive of getting a good education and then deciding what you want to do. They did not put a great deal of pressure on me to do any particular thing. Their feeling was that you should get a very good education, the best you can get, and then decide on doing something that will make you feel fulfilled, that will make you feel happy. And, I sort of developed the idea -- maybe with their influence and other people -- that you had to find something to do that you were good at, because if you are good at something, it's a lot easier to do it as work than when you are struggling with it. And, the reason I decided to remain a lawyer when I tried law school was I enjoyed it. For me, working on legal problems, writing about them, thinking about them, debating them, was very, very interesting, so I never regretted that decision. It has always been like an adventure for me, being a lawyer.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Actress and Activist
Whoopi Goldberg: I was a teapot. I was a small teapot, short and stout, here was my handle, this was my spout. And I was like seven. It was the greatest. I was just bowing, and bowing. They had to come get me off the stage. I just kept bowing. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." You know. All the other pots are gone. Born ham, that's basically me. It's the truth. My mom told me. I'd forgotten it. She also tells the story of my birth. I'm almost half kidding when I say, I came out and waved. My mother says that I came out head, arm, other arm, thumb in mouth, immediately. They were astounded, because generally that's not what you do. I was born clear, you know. They just kept calling people. I was just hanging out, thumb in my mouth. Some people are just born that way.
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