Robin Trower Quotes

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

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  Kings, Real, Three

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

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  Thinking

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• 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.

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  Play, People, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Running, Play, Feelings

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

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  Guitar, If I Could, Ifs

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

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  Believe, Moving, Special

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• 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.

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  Song, Thinking, Done

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

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  Player, Guitar, Feelings

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

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  Christmas, Guitar, Christmas Present

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

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  Player, Guitar, Today

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• The States still has the best audiences by far.

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  States, Audience, Stills

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• A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

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  Artist, Certain Death, Certain

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

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  Proud, Be Proud

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

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  Nice, Heart, Thinking

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

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  Thinking, People, Copying

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

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  Guitar, Want, Instruments

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

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  Guitar, Important, Scream

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

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  Thinking, Technique, Fundamentals

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

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  Born, Music Is, Ability

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

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  Stuff, Made, Periods

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

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  Back To Work, Imagine, I Can

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• My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

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  Song, Arrangements

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

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  Thinking, Done, Proud

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

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  Hands, Notes, I Can

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

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  People, Genes, Jerry

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