Ritchie Blackmore Quotes


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"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."
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"When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess."
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"When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised."
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"When something is not good, it's bad. Period."
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"What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?"
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"Those record companies don't know what's happening at all."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."
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"Simplicity is the key."
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"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count."
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"Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant."
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"Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated."
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"Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?"
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"If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it."
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