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" I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry. "

Paul Rodgers

People

Hard

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Destiny

" The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.' "

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First

Red

" The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings. "

" I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.' "

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Soul

King

" My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid. "

" As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together. "

" When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving. "

" I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no. "

Paul Rodgers

Connection

Strong

" If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them. "

" I come from a working-class family of seven children. "

" I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life. "

" I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure. "

" One overindulges when you're younger, and you pay the price in later years. But I always realized how important it was for me to take care of myself and my voice if I was gonna have a voice when I was older. "

Paul Rodgers

Myself

Care

" 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it. "

" In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce. "

" I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on. "

" Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true. "

" I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there. "

" I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together. "

" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

Want

You

" Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music. "

" 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. "

" Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really. "

" Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from. "

Paul Rodgers

Naked

Influence

" Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much. "

" With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.' "

" I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys. "