Robert Palmer Quotations

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and Live!' You know it's shrunk, but at least there's some sort of youthful figure to it. Whereas, the blues scene in Europe is more like, 'Here we go again.'

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

I was acting out of the good of the people of the High Bar section of the township,

The contractor said that he had a small window in order to put it up, so we decided it was the right thing to do,

Expect to see changes that will make it far easier for consumers to print their photos anytime and from anywhere. The evolution of snapshot-sized printers, the growth in wireless printing, and the emerging popularity of net-to-retail printing are just a few of the trends that will make printing simpler, more convenient, and more fun.

This was done for the purpose of having the people be able to use the playground equipment, ... I would never award a contract in a way that would have a negative effect on the people of Long Beach Township. This was all done in the best interest of them.

Duane Miller has been the most prolific researcher and inventor I have ever met. He demonstrates great zeal for transferring discoveries from his laboratory to the public through health care professionals.

The special use arrangement has been cumbersome to administer.

As a practical matter ... she now knows the charges against her. The important thing is, now she has not been terminated.

It was doing nothing for the people of that area to have it in the garage, ... The project needed to be completed.

The attractiveness of Springfield as a member of SAGE is its international reputation in Physical Education and its mission for human services. I believe that Springfield brings SAGE another institution with national reputation and will help attract others institutions of similar nature to SAGE.

I've got no faith in any of these dates that they're showing. This is inadequate, to say the least, in terms of the information they are providing us.

If you get this type of cancer, the first thing your physician will ask is when and where were you exposed to benzene.

Certainly we would like to see the stock perform better, ... I think it's up to management to do a better job of (achieving) consistent earnings and consistent improvement in earnings.

The kids are pretty much tuned in to what is going on. It helps them see the need for organ transplants.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.

No pills gonna cure my ill.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now.

Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.