Trower Quotes & Sayings

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 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

The States still has the best audiences by far. — Robin Trower

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

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

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability. — Robin Trower

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

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs. — Robin Trower

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff. — Robin Trower

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

When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis. — Robin Trower

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

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

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato. — Robin Trower

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence. — Robin Trower

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist. — Robin Trower

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

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

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

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

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. — Robin Trower

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud of its ability to chisel away at his fragile psyche in the years before he decided that he'd had enough off their invasions? And, had Jimi Hendrix not passed way in 1970, would he, too have eventually fallen into decline, first equalled, then eclipsed by the brilliant wave of new guitarists: Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Ronson, who emerged during the early 1970s? In death, Hendrix led by example: in life he could have been left for the dead. — Dave Thompson

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

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

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

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

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums. — Robin Trower

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

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