Mick Ralphs Quotes

• When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I’m only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

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• We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn’t try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

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• This kid’s excited because he’s with Bad Company and I’m excited because I’m with Chuck Berrys’ son.

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• The parrot’s so funny. He imitates me and I don’t even realize he’s doing it. I’m walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he’s said something I’ve said… it’s scary you know?

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• That’s what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

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• That’s me. I can be me a bit at home, but I’m kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

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• Since I’ve got on the Internet, it’s opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she’s an Internet widow.

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• Santa Fe is a great place which people don’t get there often, but it’s like a unique place.

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• Put me on stage and I’m happy.

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• It’s funny, when I’m not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company – or whatever- I’ve always written songs galore… a lot of stuff people don’t even hear.

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• I’ve had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

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• I’ve got a Range Rover. It’s brilliant actually but it’s manual.

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• I’m ready for some rock ‘n’ roll action.

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• I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

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• I didn’t like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

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• Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

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• But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

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Mick Ralphs (17)

Birth:	31st March, 1944
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Lyricist

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