Robin Trower famous quotes

04-23-2025

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

#Kings #Real #Three
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
-- Robin Trower

#Song
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

#Thinking #Done #Proud
When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
-- Robin Trower

#Moving #Believe #Special
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
-- Robin Trower

#Feels #Guitarist
Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.
-- Robin Trower

#Radio
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

#Guitar
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
-- Robin Trower

#Thinking #Technique #Fundamentals
It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
-- Robin Trower

#Guitar #Woods #Different
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
-- Robin Trower

#Born #Music Is #Ability
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
-- Robin Trower

#People #Genes #Jerry
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

#Running #Play #Feelings
Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.
-- Robin Trower

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

#Thinking #Mail #Fans
If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.
-- Robin Trower

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

#Hands #Notes
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

#Singing #Weak #Very Good
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
-- Robin Trower

#Artist #Certain Death #Certain
A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.
-- Robin Trower

#Guitar #Important #Scream
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.
-- Robin Trower

#Player #Guitar #Today
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
-- Robin Trower

#Guitar #Want #Instruments
I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.
-- Robin Trower

#Firsts #Albums #Feels
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

#Blessed #Creativity #Able
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

#Play #People #Feelings
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.
-- Robin Trower

#Track #Albums #Flaws
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

#Night #Two #Sideways
I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
-- Robin Trower

#Christmas #Guitar #Christmas Present

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