Robin Trower Quotes
"The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Music, Ability)
"I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent."
- Robin Trower
(Related: People)
"My songs are more arrangements than they are songs."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Songs)
"Music has nothing to do with your technical ability."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Music, Ability, Nothing)
"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."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Feeling, Play)
"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Guitar, Today)
"A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Love, Guitar)
"A certain death of an artist is overconfidence."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Death, Artist)
"I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff."
- Robin Trower
(Related: First, Influence)
"If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist."
- Robin Trower
"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."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Experience, Being, Singing)
"I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato."
- Robin Trower
"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Creativity)
"I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best."
- Robin Trower
(Related: First)
"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."
- Robin Trower
(Related: People, Ability, Feeling, Play)
"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."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Night)
"I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Christmas, Guitar, Present)
"The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me."
- Robin Trower
(Related: First)
"I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really."
- Robin Trower
"I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets."
- Robin Trower
"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Guitar, Want)
"I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Mail)
"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Guitar, Wood)
"When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis."
- Robin Trower
"When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward."
- Robin Trower
"While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Time, Guitar)
"I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Being)
"The States still has the best audiences by far."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Audiences, states)
"Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Business)