English - Musician | December 17, 1949 -
I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
Paul Rodgers
GoodMusicMeYouDiscoOut
When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.
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Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
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I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.
TimeDeepYouNowEverythingOut
Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, 'I'd like to have a jam.' So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start.
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There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive.
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A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important.
LiveMistakesSoulRememberEarly
I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.
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I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.
SometimesGetBit
I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.
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When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
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