Top 50 Robin Trower Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.”

— Robin Trower

2. “The ability to make music is a gift that you’re born with; it’s not something you can learn.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

4. “Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.”

— Robin Trower

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “I don’t tend to stand still for very long.”

— Robin Trower

9. “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

10. “I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.”

— Robin Trower

11. “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

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

— Robin Trower

13. “Radio is commercial, isn’t it. Its a business.”

— Robin Trower

14. “Once you start copying other people’s licks, you begin thinking they’re yours. Doing that’s just an easy way out.”

— Robin Trower

15. “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

16. “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

17. “My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

19. “When you start believing you’re something special, then you’re not going to be striving to move forward.”

— Robin Trower

20. “I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

22. “There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there’s enough live shows out there.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

24. “I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

26. “It’s great to have something you can be proud of.”

— Robin Trower

27. “There’s more power in the simpler things, I think.”

— Robin Trower

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Once I’ve settled on something I’ll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.”

— Robin Trower

31. “The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it’s not commercial.”

— Robin Trower

32. “I’ve got very strong hands from playing for many years.”

— Robin Trower

33. “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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34. “It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.”

— Robin Trower

35. “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

36. “I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.”

— Robin Trower

37. “If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who’ve come after ’65.”

— Robin Trower

38. “I didn’t sit down and work out other people’s material; I’ve never believed in that.”

— Robin Trower

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

— Robin Trower

40. “I didn’t want to get attached to one guitar; I didn’t want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.”

— Robin Trower

41. “I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.”

— Robin Trower

42. “During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn’t like what they were making at the time.”

— Robin Trower

43. “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

44. “If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.”

— Robin Trower

45. “I can’t say I feel influenced by today’s guitar players.”

— Robin Trower

46. “I can’t imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.”

— Robin Trower

47. “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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48. “The States still has the best audiences by far.”

— Robin Trower

49. “If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.”

— Robin Trower

50. “It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar’s different.”

— Robin Trower