Robin Trower Quotes

Once I've settled on something I'll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.

My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

It's great to have something you can be proud of.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.