Robin Trower Quotes

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

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• A certain death of an artist is overconfidence

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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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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• I think it’s a sensible thing not to read your fan mail – not to take it too seriously.

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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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• If I could sing, I wouldn’t be a guitarist.

  If I could sing, I wouldn’t be a guitarist.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

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Robin Trower (30)

Birth:	9th March, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Lyricist

About

Robin Trower is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio.

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• 1971 - Krista Allen
• 1941 - Michael Moriarty
• 1865 - Booker T. Washington
• 1968 - Paula Cole
• 1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Deaths

• 1982 - Abe Fortas
• 1994 - Kurt Cobain
• 2000 - Lee Petty
• 1992 - Sam Walton
• 2005 - Saul Bellow