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" I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip. "

Paul Rodgers

Emotions

Kind

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Proud

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

" 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. "

" After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home. "

" One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll. "

" 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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Want

You

" 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.' "

" Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions. "

" One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake. "

" 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

" 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. "

" When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different. "

" When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company. "

" If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy. "

" 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

" I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other. "

" When I play solo, that's when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I've written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song. "

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

Paul Rodgers

First

Red

" Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter. "

" I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. "

Paul Rodgers

Band

Got

" 'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome. "

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

" Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless. "

" It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing. "

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