Robin Trower Quotes

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

My only passion is music.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.