Quotes by Robin Zander - Page 1

I'm a chameleon. That's my personality in the band.
Robin Zander / Singer
Band
Chameleon
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I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.
Robin Zander / Singer
Progression
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I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.
Robin Zander / Singer
Guitars
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I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.
Robin Zander / Singer
James
James Taylor
Neil
Neil Young
Taylor
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Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.
Robin Zander / Singer
Nashville
Music Country Country Music
Country Music
Worldwide
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We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.
Robin Zander / Singer
Illinois
International
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I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.
Robin Zander / Singer
Casual
Nascar
Racing
Stock
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Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it.
Robin Zander / Singer
Bother
New Music
Love Music People
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Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.
Robin Zander / Singer
Exaggerated
Me Look Way
Look Me Way
Forced
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It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.
Robin Zander / Singer
Rare
Good Me Enough
Hall
Nominated
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I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.
Robin Zander / Singer
Florida
Midwest
Life Home Me
Embraced
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We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.
Robin Zander / Singer
Distance
Good Thing
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Each record is sort of like a brand new baby, where it's your favorite thing at that moment in time.
Robin Zander / Singer
Brand New
New Baby
Time Moment Your
Time Where Moment
Favorite Thing
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'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.
Robin Zander / Singer
Worldwide
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I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'
Robin Zander / Singer
Police
Surrender
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I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
Robin Zander / Singer
Comic
Collect
Substantial
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I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.
Robin Zander / Singer
Hey
Opening
Plant
Boy
Pretty
Backstage
Coming
Pretty Good
Robert
Saying
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As far as Cheap Trick albums, I like the Red Ant record, which is just called 'Cheap Trick,' from 1997; that's my second-favorite album.
Robin Zander / Singer
Ant
Cheap
Trick
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I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
Robin Zander / Singer
Time
Saturated
Thinking
Tired
Everywhere
Gotten
Just A Little Bit
Overdone
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I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.
Robin Zander / Singer
Older Brothers
Stock
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The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
Robin Zander / Singer
Culprit
Housing
Mortgage
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To me, it's like, what's good for me is good for Cheap Trick... and what's good for Rick is good for Cheap Trick, and so on... and that's the thing.
Robin Zander / Singer
Good Me Like
Cheap
Trick
Rick
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I hope the best for anybody in this business. It's hard enough as it is, and of course you don't get much respect from anybody, but when you do, you should appreciate it.
Robin Zander / Singer
Appreciate
Anybody
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After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.
Robin Zander / Singer
Nervous
Good Money People
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We've been around, and we've stayed around, and we go out, and people still enjoy listening to us, and we still sell a lot of tickets, so what do I got to complain about? Nothing.
Robin Zander / Singer
Tickets
Stayed
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Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thing. That's when I started wearing three-piece suits. It wasn't unnatural for me.
Robin Zander / Singer
Bowie
Bryan
Ferry
Type
Unnatural
David
Wearing
Suggested
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I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.
Robin Zander / Singer
Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic
Shoulder
Strapped
Thousands
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My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends.
Robin Zander / Singer
Musician
Warrior
Wisconsin
Indeed
Swing
Weekends
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We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.
Robin Zander / Singer
Peers
Opened
Opening Act
Underground
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Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.
Robin Zander / Singer
Deserve
Opening
Pushing
Resentful
Acts
Musically
So Many Years
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Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
Robin Zander / Singer
Band
Differences
Touring
Decisions
Cheap
Trick
Member
Settled
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I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.
Robin Zander / Singer
Song
Thinking
Two
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I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.
Robin Zander / Singer
Guitar
Play
Years
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