Robin Trower Quotes

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

To play like John Bonham is the hardest thing in the world because you're not John Bonham. It's how you breathe out of your heart. It's your emotions.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

For me, acting is doing.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I acted my heart out.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.