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                                                        "Famous Quotes "
 Below you will find some quotes that I have found interesting
and sometimes profound.
                           The October 2004 Guitar Player article on the 50 Greatest Guitar Tones lists
                                                                   Robin Trower -----Exerpt :
"Bridge Of Sighs"
"Robin Trower's tone on this 1974 track is spooky, mysterious, tough, and cinematically mournful.
In fact, it's one of those sounds thatdriftsso far above technique and tonecraft that it should be
considered an emotion.  It's no secret that Trower favored Strats and Marshalls during the period
                 this song was recorded, but the rest of the recipe should simply detailed as magic. "

  "Music is impossible to describe in words. It's elusive, as is how I feel when I'm playing. It feels good, It's exciting but impossible to describe. When I'm playing, it's very spiritual, almost religious, perhaps the last of the modern religions. All I know is that I never wanted success as much as wanting to make great music."
                                                       Robin Trower
                       From Chrysalis promo artist release brochure for 
                                               the album Robin Trower - Live  1976 
"" Any group that has a bunch of hit records....once those records are established in someone's subconcious mind, they're there forever as your particular three minutes of that person's mind. So if you can flip them back by means of doing a three minute song.... if you can take them back five years, that's kind of a priviledge, you know?""
Burton Cummings (The Guess Who) June 5,1974
responding to the question about playing a lot of well known songs
Do you enjoy listening to your own music?

                I do, when I’m creating it. But when it’s done, I
                really don’t want to hear it again. However, I do
                like going out and performing it, because every
                time you do, it’s fresh and it’s a challenge. But I
                don’t put on my own albums once I’m done with  them.
Brian Holland Interview  Feb 23, 2006
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX: What did you think about the Band of Gypsys
   album? 

   TROWER: I thought it was magnificent. "Machine Gun," in particular, had a
   very big influence on me, definitely. His playing on that song is some of the
   best playing on the electric guitar you'll hear anywhere. It's one of recorded
   music's finest moments.
                                                  Your three favorite tracks?

                                     RT: I think 'Somebody Calling' would be one
                                     [from In City Dreams]. I really like
                                     'Extermination Blues' from Another Days
                                     Blues. Another one from In City Dreams called
                                     'Little Girl', I really love that. Jimmy's vocal is
                                     just stunning on it.
                                    Brian Holland Interview  Feb 23, 2006
FN: And when you are up for it, what is it that you still get out of a great gig and tour?
RT: Well, I think it’s just about playing great. If you get up and you perform to somewhere near what you’re hoping is going to happen—if you get somewhere near that—then it’s, you know, just one of the greatest feelings.
         Interview with Fender 2006
 " There are a lot of good players out there but I don't think that making good music has anything to do with being a great player" 
                                                        Robin Trower 
   "I think you're either born a musician or not. If you are, there's no other path. Ambitions are different nowadays. The main ambition is to make hit records and a lot of money and be some sort of star. When we started, back in the middle ages, we never thought of making a record. You got together to play. That was where you wanted to be.  I don't think I've lost that attitude."
                                                         Robin Trower
                                   From Chrysalis promo artist release brochure for
                                   the album " Caravan To Midnight"  1978

 "It'd be silly to say I wasn't influenced by Hendrix; everything about the guitar that you wished for, he'd done it. I don't think I'll ever be as good as him but I think it's possible that we'll make better music, which is a different sort of thing."
                                       - Robin Trower
                     Interview by SteveRosen for the Los Angeles 
                               Free Press .  November 16, 1973
  " Jimmy Dewar, in my opinion, is the best white singer I've ever heard. Without a shadow of a doubt. "
                                                 Davey Pattison
                                From the book by Dan Muise (and many times on the phone)
  "In a way, it was  a departure from the standard style that you had  gotten from Robin in the past.  It was another side  of Robin coming out.  It was his R&B side which has always been an important part of his sum total which makes the Robin Trower sound."
                                             - Bill Lordan 
                      Responding to a question regarding the making of In City Dreams
                                             during our interview


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