Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Standards, Raised

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• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Giving, Volume

  "Ritchie Blackmore Talks Yngwie Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple in 1991 Interview". Interview, www.guitarworld.com. February, 1991.

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• One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  People, Brain, Speak

  Source: thequietus.com

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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.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Genius, Way, Stealing

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• Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Art, Tunes, Going Out

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• Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Hair, Musician

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Loud

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• When something is not good, it's bad. Period

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Periods

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• Simplicity is the key.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Keys, Simplicity

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• I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Swimming, Enemy, Sometimes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Play, Stage, Wells

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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.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Rocks, Play Hard, Renaissance

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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.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Play

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• I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Likes, Mets, Funk

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• I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Important, Guitarist

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• A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Running, Play, Training

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• I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Jumping, Air, Class

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• I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Criticize, My Own

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• Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Tears, Trying, Strange

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Journey, Guitar, Rolling

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• I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Car, Levels

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• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

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  Song, Umpires, Play

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• I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Musical, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Crash, Used

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