Trower Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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#7. If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

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

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#9. When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.

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

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#12. I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

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

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#14. If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

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

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

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#18. My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.

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

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#20. Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

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#21. 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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#22. Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

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#23. I don't tend to stand still for very long.

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

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#25. The States still has the best audiences by far.

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

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

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#28. I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

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#29. 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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#30. I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

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#31. Once I've settled on something I'll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.

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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

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

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#37. It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

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#38. 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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#39. A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

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#43. I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

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#44. 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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#45. My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

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#46. It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

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#47. While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

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#48. If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

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

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

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#51. 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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#52. I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

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#53. 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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