Paul Rodgers Quotes
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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
Bad Company
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I come from a working-class family of seven children.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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
Bad Company
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With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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
Bad Company
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Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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My dad worked on the Middlesbrough docks.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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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.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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'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
Bad Company
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If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
