Peter Frampton – HuffPost 6.6.11

Mike Ragogna: Being so influential, what advice do you have for new artists?

Peter Frampton: New players and new guitarists, all I can say is listen to as many players as you can and steal from as many of them as you can–all their best licks. Then, when you’ve got their licks down, one day you’ll wake up and you won’t sound like you’re doing them, you’ll just sound like you because you’ve developed a style by putting everybody else’s together. Then, that just becomes a library of licks that you’ve learned from other people, and then you’ll play them your way. As far as the business is concerned, never let anybody tell you what to play or what to write because if you chase a trend, you’ll be late, always. Always stay true to your original ideas. I think that’s how trends are made–by something new–not by chasing the tail of someone else.