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" I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own. "
Paul Rodgers
Own
Fan
Been
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" 'That's How Strong My Love Is' carries a message that resonates with the broken-hearted, and most of us have been there. "
Paul Rodgers
Strong
Message
Love
" I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. "
Paul Rodgers
T
Band
Got
" One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll. "
Paul Rodgers
Through
Play
Sit
" I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. "
Paul Rodgers
Fleetwood Mac
Fan
Green
" Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it. "
Paul Rodgers
Music
King
Myself
" I come from a working-class family of seven children. "
Paul Rodgers
Family
Children
Come
" Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much. "
Paul Rodgers
Human
Early
Development
" Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter. "
Paul Rodgers
Voice
Amazing
Brilliant
" Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity. "
Paul Rodgers
Live
Creativity
You
" 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. "
Paul Rodgers
Doing
Stop
Queen
" Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true. "
Paul Rodgers
You
People
Know
" I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together. "
Paul Rodgers
Love
People
Think
" 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
Up
" 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. "
Paul Rodgers
Secret
She
Wife
" A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on. "
Paul Rodgers
Finished
Until
Live
" In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America. "
Paul Rodgers
Handle
Tough
Us
" You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work. "
Paul Rodgers
Work
Through
Think
" One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake. "
Paul Rodgers
Lake
Always
Dreams
" 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. "
Paul Rodgers
Work
Together
Queen
" I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics. "
Paul Rodgers
Free Spirit
Much
Free
" I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering it. I still have a lot of my old records from back in the day. It's a joy to play things like Junior Wells' 'Hoodoo Man Blues,' and John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. There's a warmth that you can still feel. "
Paul Rodgers
You
People
Man
" 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it. "
Paul Rodgers
Real
Shooting
Out
" Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me. "
Paul Rodgers
Always
Journey
Open
" A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.' "
Paul Rodgers
Writing
Time
People
" I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes. "
Paul Rodgers
Sometimes
Get
Bit
" Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music. "
Paul Rodgers
System
Blues
Dynamic
" I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years. "
Paul Rodgers
Play
Years
Now
" I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing. "
Paul Rodgers
Group
Amazing
Marquee
" The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.' "
Paul Rodgers
First
Red
T
" 'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome. "
Paul Rodgers
Within
Well
Awesome