Robin Trower Quotes

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

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

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

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.

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.

If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

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

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

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

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

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

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

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

The States still has the best audiences by far.

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

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

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

I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.