A biography for Paul Rodgershasn’t been written yet.
“Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.”
“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.”
“Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.”
“I come from a working-class family of seven children.”
“My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.”
“I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.”
“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.”
“Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.”
“As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together.”
“A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.”
“I carry my own tea, food, and Tabasco on the plane with me.”
“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.'”
“There is magic on earth.”
“Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.”
“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.”
“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.”