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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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You

" I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. "

" When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life. "

" 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. "

" There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me. "

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

Paul Rodgers

Band

Got

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

" When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that. "

Paul Rodgers

Singing

" I carry my own tea, food, and Tabasco on the plane with me. "

Paul Rodgers

Food

Carry

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment. "

" The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song. "

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

" 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

" My dad worked on the Middlesbrough docks. "

Paul Rodgers

Dad

Worked

" Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity. "

" Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it. "

" I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long. "

" 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. "

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

" I am proud to be a Canuck. "

Paul Rodgers

I Am

Proud

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

" I always think the audience should be part of the show. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "